Date:	Thursday 28 April 1955
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	12 FTS RAF
Registration:	VZ392
MSN:	AWA.
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Whitchurch, Shropshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Weston Zoyland, Bridgwater, Somerset.
Destination airport:	RAF Weston Zoyland, Somerset.
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 VZ392: Delivered 13/9/49. RAF Service career was with RAF Duxford Station Flight, 92 Squadron, 500 (County of Kent) Squadron, 226 OCU RAF Stradishall, 215 AFS (Advanced Flying School) coded "W-N", 207 AFS, and 12 FTS RAF Weston Zoyland, Bridgwater, Somerset.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 28/4/55: The aircraft struck the ground while flying in cloud in a CFIT (Controlled Flight Into Terrain). The aircraft struck a hillside at Whitchurch, Shropshire and "bounced" off the hillside, seriously damaged but still flyable.

Although the Meteor managed to return to base at RAF Weston Zoyland, Bridgwater, Somerset, it was deemed to have been "damaged beyond economic repair" and Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(s) at 49 MU RAF Colerne in May 1955

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2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.104)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.130
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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-May-2020 20:47	Dr. John Smith	Added
12-May-2020 21:57	Boile A.	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
23-Jul-2021 20:56	Anon.	Updated [Location, Operator]