Date:	Thursday 29 October 1953
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 4
Owner/operator:	206 AFS RAF
Registration:	VT335
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F4, VT335, 206 AFS (Advanced Flying School), RAF: delivered 17/11/1948. Written off 29/10/1953 in a landing accident at RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire

During the landing run at RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire the undercarrriage collapsed, and the underside of Meteor VT335 was extensively damaged. Although the aircraft was written off (deemed "damaged beyond repair"), the pilot appears to have escaped uninjured.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.152 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 423
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
4. 206 AFS ORB (Operational Record Book)(Air Ministry File AM/F,540) for the period 1/10/1951 to 31/5/1954: National Archives (PRO Kew) file AIR 29/2146/1 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162860
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VT

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-May-2021 22:16	Dr. John Smith	Added
21-May-2021 09:06	siczak	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]