Date:	Monday 4 June 1956
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	RAF Flying College
Registration:	WK752
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Langar, Nottinghamshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Manby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Langar, Nottinghamshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WK752: Notified as awaiting collection 18/2/52, delivered to the RAF 20/8/52. RAF Service career was with the APS (Armament Practice Station) RAF Acklington, and the RAF Flying College, Cranwell.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 4/6/56: Overshot landing at RAF Langar, Nottinghamshire, and aircraft ran into a ditch after the brakes failed. Nose wheel collapsed on impact with ditch. Not repaired, Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(c) and broken up for spares and produce at Langar

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.170 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 70)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.197
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
5. https://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=40185
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Jun-2008 09:13	JINX	Added
12-May-2015 07:40	yarbi	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport]
12-May-2015 07:40	yarbi	Updated [Destination airport]
16-Jun-2020 00:14	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
13-May-2021 20:07	Anon.	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator]