Date:	Monday 28 March 1955
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T Mk 10
Owner/operator:	Hull UAS RAF
Registration:	WP777
MSN:	C1/0667
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Brough Aerodrome, Brough, East Yorkshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Brough Aerodrome, Brough, East Yorkshire (EGNB)
Destination airport:	Brough Aerodrome, East Yorkshire (EGNB)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.Mk.10 WP777: Delivered 13/6/52. RAF career was with 1 RFS (Reserve Flying School) and Hull UAS (University Air Squadron).

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 28/3/55: Aircraft hit an embankment while on final approach to Brough Aerodrome, Brough, East Yorkshire. Aircraft "bounced" off the embankment on impact, landed heavily and broke apart. No reported injuries to the two crew members.

Remained recovered by (and to) 60 MU RAF Rufforth, North Yorkshire for crash investigation. Then struck off charge as Cat.5(c) in April 1955 for reduced to spares and scrap.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.169 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.83)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.125
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WP

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
09-May-2020 23:54	Dr. John Smith	Added
10-May-2020 09:37	MIG29	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator]