Date:	Thursday 16 June 1960
Time:	day
Type:	Saunders Roe Skeeter AOP.12
Owner/operator:	652 Sqn Brit. AAC
Registration:	XL772
MSN:	S2/5089
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Detmold airfield -   Germany
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Detmold, W. Germany
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Saunders-Roe (SARO) Skeeter AOP.12, 652 Squadron, Army Air Corps: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 16/6/60 - Rolled over on take off from Detmold, West Germany

Note that the official Air Ministry files at the National Archives at Kew (File BT233/434 and AVIA 5/39/S2980 - see links #3 & #4) gives the crash location at "Detmold, West Germany". However, several other published sources give the crash location as "Middle Wallop, Hampshire" (see links #6 and #7)

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.203 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p 57)
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/434: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424555
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/39/S2980: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578760
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XL
6. http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html
7. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1960.htm
8. http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/waf/uk/army/types/skeeter12.htm

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

4 October 1963	XL806	652 Sqn Brit. AAC	0	near Dahl, Paderborn (NRW)		w/o
Collision with pole or wires

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Jan-2020 18:34	Dr. John Smith	Added
27-Jan-2020 22:42	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Operator]
28-Jan-2020 14:38	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
21-Feb-2020 18:20	Xindel XL	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]