Date:	Tuesday 17 June 1952
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 4
Owner/operator:	203 AFS RAF
Registration:	VT344
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	south of RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F4, VT344, 203 AFS (Advanced Flying School) RAF: delivered 2/12/1948. Written off 17/6/1952 when crashed south of RAF Driffeld, East Yorkshire. The aircraft took off normally from RAF Driffled for a flying training sortie. Soon after takeoff, the Meteor started a turn to port, but then began a rapid descent and flew into the ground. The pilot - an Iraqi national - was killed.

Crew of Meteor VT344
Captain A R Al-Ani, (pilot) Royal Iraqi Air Force - killed 17/6/1952

The RAF Board of Inquiry concluded that the accident was due to the pilots inexperience in IFR (Instrument Flying) training.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
2. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-290-4. p 130)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.257
4. 203 AFS ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/5/1954: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2145/1 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162858
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VT

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
11-Mar-2021 22:43	Dr. John Smith	Added
12-Mar-2021 09:25	AlLach	Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]
12-Mar-2021 19:35	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]