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Date: | Tuesday 19 May 1953 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 8 |
Owner/operator: | 211 AFS RAF |
Registration: | WK929 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Carburton Crossroads, 4.5 miles NW of Ollerton, Nottinghamshire -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Worksop, Nottinghamshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Worksop, Nottinghamshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WK929, 211 AFS, RAF: delivered 11/12/1952. Written off (destroyed) on 19th May 1953 - Pilot Officer Trevor John Hood, from Cheam in Surrey was killed after his Meteor F.8 (WK929) crashed near Carburton crossroads, four and a half miles north of Ollerton, Nottinghamshire. A few minutes after take off, the Meteor was seen to dive steeply out of a low cloudbase on a reciprocal heading to the direction of take off.
Crew of Meteor WK929
Pilot Officer (2600262) Trevor John HOOD (pilot) RAF - killed in service 19/5/1953
Pilot Officer Hood (born 6 January 1932) is now buried at Retford Road Cemetery, Worksop. He has a stone flower holder on the War Memorial outside St George's, Ashtead, Surrey and is also commemorated on the National Armed Forces Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, Staffordshire (see link #11)
The reported crash location was a crossroads on the outskirts of Carburton, a small village on the west side of Clumber, within the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England. Carburton stands on the River Poulter, on the Ollerton Road and is very close to Clumber Park. It is surrounded by four major cities, those being Doncaster, Lincoln, Sheffield and Nottingham, which is around 24 miles (39 km) away..
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.171 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 71)
3. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 372
4.
http://rafworksop.btck.co.uk/AircraftBasedatWorksop 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK 6.
http://priorieshistoricalsociety.btck.co.uk/WorksopLife/RAFWorksop 7.
http://rafworksop.btck.co.uk/ThosewhoservedanddiedfortheRAF 8.
https://issuu.com/lifepublications/docs/worksoplifefebruary2012 p.38
9.
https://issuu.com/lifepublications/docs/retfordlifemarch2012 10.
https://hi-in.facebook.com/WorksopRoyalBritishLegion/posts/lest-we-forgetthe-rbl-are-still-seeking-information-of-any-local-raf-killed-duri/2176237225769962/ 11.
http://veterans.mod.uk/certificate-hi-res.php?SerialNo=R2874 12.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carburton Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
19-Jun-2008 12:45 |
JINX |
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12-May-2015 16:31 |
Jixn |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Phase, Departure airport] |
15-Jan-2020 17:59 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
15-Jan-2020 18:13 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
15-Jan-2020 18:19 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
15-Jan-2020 22:27 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator] |
28-Apr-2021 21:18 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
29-Apr-2021 10:21 |
Jixn |
Updated [Operator, Nature, Narrative, Operator] |