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Date: | Tuesday 1 February 1955 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 |
Owner/operator: | 4 FTS RAF |
Registration: | VT115 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1.5 miles SSE of Neasham, County Durham -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St. George, near Darlington, County Durham |
Destination airport: | RAF Middleton St. George, Co.Durham |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.4 VT115, 4 FTS, RAF: Written off (destroyed) 1/2/55 when crashed one and a half miles south-south-east of Neasham, County Durham. At the end of a night cross-country navigation exercise, the Meteor made a controlled descent from 21,000 feet, and passed over the airfield at RAF Middleton St. George, near Darlington, County Durham, at approximately 1,000 feet. Immediately afterwards, the aircraft struck the ground in a steep side slipping turn at an angle of around 45 degrees. The pilot was killed
Crew of Meteor VT115
Pilot Officer Michael John Turner RAF (pilot, aged 20) - killed on active service 1/2/55
Neasham is a village approximately four miles to the south east of Darlington in County Durham, England at approximate co ordinates 54.48793°N 1.49332°W
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.168 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 83)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.114
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/257:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424378 5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/33/S2738:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578518 6.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VT 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neasham 8.
http://www.dtvmovements.co.uk/Info/Mil/Mil1955.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
14-Jan-2020 16:15 |
Dr. John Smith |
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14-Jan-2020 16:17 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
14-Jan-2020 19:35 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Phase, Nature, Operator] |
05-May-2020 21:54 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
06-May-2020 05:58 |
MIG21 |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |