Date:	Wednesday 20 October 1954
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5
Owner/operator:	9 FTS RAF
Registration:	VZ310
MSN:	EEP/42...
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Lyng Court, West Lyng, 7 miles east of Taunton, Somerset -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Merryfield, Ilton, Somerset
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.Mk.5 VZ310: Delivered 29/3/50. RAF Service was with 213 Squadron, 208 AFS (Advanced Flying School), 10 FTS and 9 FTS, RAF

Written off (destroyed) 20/10/54 when Pilot abandoned aircraft and bailed out after controls jammed, near Lyng Court, West Lyng, seven miles east of Taunton, Somerset. Aircraft destroyed when dived into the ground, leaving a large impact crater.

Crew of Vampire VZ310:
Squadron Leader R J Colson, RAF (pilot, aged 32)

1. Chard & Ilminster News - 23 October 1954
2. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.164 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.97
4. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 102)
5. Wings Over Somerset: Aircraft Crashes since the End of World War II By Peter Forrester
6. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/242: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424363
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VZ
8. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyng,_Somerset

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
08-Jan-2020 20:07	Dr. John Smith	Added
08-Jan-2020 21:04	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Operator]
25-Apr-2020 21:37	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
26-Apr-2020 08:56	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator]