Accident Gloster Meteor T Mk 7 WL359,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 21353
 
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Date:Monday 21 April 1958
Time:afternoon
Type:Silhouette image of generic METR model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
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/timeContributorUpdates
20-Jun-2008 06:01 JINX Added
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]

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