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Date: | Monday 21 April 1958 |
Time: | afternoon |
Type: | Gloster Meteor T Mk 7 |
Owner/operator: | 4 FTS RAF |
Registration: | WL359 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Worksop, Nottinghamshire. -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Demo/Airshow/Display |
Departure airport: | RAF Worksop, Nottinghamshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor T.Mk.7 WL359, 4 FTS, RAF: Written off (destroyed) 21/04/58: Flight Lieutenant K Levitt in Meteor T.Mk.7 WL359 was one of the airfields display team aircraft and crashed into the ground after the aircraft became overstressed during low level display at the airfields Battle of Britain open day. The horn balance came off the elevator whilst pulling a loop sending the aircraft vertically into the ground.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.195 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 73)
3.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WL 4.
http://rafworksop.btck.co.uk/ThosewhoservedanddiedfortheRAF 5.
http://priorieshistoricalsociety.btck.co.uk/WorksopLife/RAFWorksop 6.
http://rafworksop.btck.co.uk/AircraftBasedatWorksop 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1958.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
20-Jun-2008 06:01 |
JINX |
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12-May-2015 08:01 |
ABBA |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
12-May-2015 08:05 |
Cliford |
Updated [Location] |
15-Jan-2020 18:29 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
15-Jan-2020 22:35 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator] |