Date:	Monday 28 May 1951
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 4
Owner/operator:	226 OCU RAF
Registration:	VT189
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Bradwell-on-Sea, Dengie Peninsula, Essex, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Stradishall, Suffolk
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.4 VT289, 226 OCU RAF: delivered 3/6/1948. Written off (destroyed) 28/5/1951, during a training sortie from RAF Stradishall, Suffolk the pilot pulled out at too low an altitude from a five-degree dive attack over the sea. The Meteor then struck a sea wall at Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex, approximately 150 yards beyond the intended target. The pilot was killed.

Crew of Meteor VT189:
Sergeant Ralph Campbell Oakley, RAF (pilot) - killed on active service 28/5/1951

The reported crash location of Bradwell-on-Sea is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. The village is on the Dengie peninsula. It is located about 9 km (5.6 mi) north-northeast of Southminster and is 30 km (19 mi) east from the county town of Chelmsford.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.115 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.140
4. 226 OCU ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/5/1955: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2165/1 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162873
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VT
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradwell-on-Sea

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Jan-2021 23:39	Dr. John Smith	Added
24-Jan-2021 09:34	Roy	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator]