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Date: | Thursday 26 June 1952 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 |
Owner/operator: | RAF Flying College |
Registration: | RA486 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Strubby, Lincolnshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Strubby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Manby, Lincolnshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.4 RA486, RAF Flying College Manby: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 26/6/1952 in a take off incident at RAF Strubby, Lincolnshire. The pilot applied the brakes of Meteor RA486 during the take off run, but before the aircraft had attained lift off speed. The take off was abandoned, the aircraft ran off the end of the runway at Strubby, into a field, and was damaged.
The pilot (a senior officer from a Commonwealth Air Force) was uninjured. It transpired that he had done the same thing a few weeks earlier, although on that occasion the aircraft was not damaged.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p. 131 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 262
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain)
4.
http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1952 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
13-Mar-2021 17:07 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
07-May-2021 20:42 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |