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Date: | Wednesday 14 October 1953 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 210 AFS RAF |
Registration: | EE462 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Upper Basildon, near Pangbourne, Berkshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Tarrant Rushdon, Dorset |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.3 EE462, 210 AFS (Advanced Flying School), RAF: Written off (destroyed) 14 October 1953. Crashed at Upper Basildon, Berkshire while the pilot was giving an unauthorised aerobatic display over his home. Pilot killed
Crew of Meteor F.Mk.3 EE462:
Pilot Officer Alan Derek Trentham RAF (pilot, Service Number 3134407, aged 20) - killed on active service 14/10/1953. Buried at St. Helen Churchyard Extension, Benson, South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire
The reported crash location of Upper Basildon is a small village in the civil parish of Basildon, near to Pangbourne, in the English county of Berkshire at approximate coordinates: 51.481°N 1.140°W
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 421
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft EE100-EZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. 210 AFS ORB (Operational Record Boook)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/9/1952 to 30/4/1954: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2148/2 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162863 5.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66463806/alan-derek-trentham 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Basildon 7.
http://www.controltowers.co.uk/t-v/tarrant_rushton.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
09-Dec-2020 16:38 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
10-Dec-2020 18:18 |
AlLach |
Updated [Operator, Nature, Narrative, Operator] |
19-May-2021 16:54 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |