Date:	Tuesday 9 October 1956
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	65 (East India) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WK801
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:	RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon (EGDC)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WK801: Notified as awaiting collection 24/9/1952, delivered to the RAF 29/9/1952. Sole RAF service career was with 65 (East India) Squadron coded "F"

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 9/10/1956: Hit the slipstream of another aircraft while on approach to RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon. It sank onto the runway, causing the undercarriage to collapse. No reports of any injuries to the pilot.

WK801 was Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(c) on 9/10/1956 and reduced to spares and produce

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.183 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.216
4. 65 Squadron ORB (Operational Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1956 to 31/3/1961: File AIR 27/2791/3 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8430647
5. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Jun-2008 09:34	JINX	Added
27-May-2013 06:23	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport]
12-Jul-2020 23:01	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]