Date:	Thursday 7 May 1953
Time:	day
Type:	Avro Anson T Mk 21
Owner/operator:	11 RFS RAF
Registration:	VV299
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Titlington Pike, near Powburn, 6 miles WNW of Alnwick, Northumberland -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Scone Airfield, Perth, Scotland
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Avro Anson T.21, VV299, 11 RFS: delivered 7/2/1949. Written off 7/5/1953, when crashed at Titlington Pike, near Powburn, west of Alnwick, Northumberland. The aircraft descended below safety height in poor weather in an attempt to obtain a definite pinpoint. The port wing struck the ground and immediately afterwards the starboard wing struck a tree and the aircraft cartwheeled and came to rest facing the way it had come.

The five occupants were all injured:

Sergeant F Boyd
Flying Officer C M Guthrie
Flying Officer S Fenton
Flying Officer J L Kelly and
Sergeant W G Milne.

The exact location of the crash is stated as Titlington Pike, near the village of Powburn, six miles west-north-west of Alnwick, Northumberland. Titlington Pike is a hill that rises above the Breamish Valley in the Cheviot Hills, with a peak at 233 metres (764 feet).

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.145 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.367
4. The Anson File (Ray Sturtivant, Air Britain, 1988)
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VV
6. http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/08902.php
7. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-avro-652-anson-t21-powburn
8. https://www.nelsam.org.uk/NEAR/Losses/Losses-PostWWII.htm
9. https://www.breamishvalley.com/titlington-pike/

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Sep-2008 01:00	ASN archive	Added
09-Apr-2012 17:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative]
17-Apr-2012 15:16	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Narrative]
20-Oct-2015 18:28	Jixn	Updated [Operator, Narrative]
27-Apr-2021 16:12	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
27-Apr-2021 16:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
27-Apr-2021 17:16	Jixon	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator]