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Date: | Friday 8 March 1946 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 74 (Tiger) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | EE344 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Langley Burrell, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Colerne, Chippenham, Wiltshire (EGUO) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F. Mk. III EE344: Delivered to 74 (Tiger) Squadron RAF 10.7.45; overshot runway; swung and undercarriage collapsed, Colerne, 15.11.45 (Sqn/Leader R T Llewellyn OK). Repaired On Site, and returned to 74 Squadron 20.12.45.
Written off (destroyed) 8.3.46 in a flying accident at Langley Burrell, near Chippenham, Wiltshire.
The Royal Indian Air Force Pilot had taken off from RAF Colerne, Chippenham, Wiltshire for a training sortie. During the sortie the pilot made an unauthorised low-level mock attack on a train. However, while he was focused on the mock attack, he allowed Meteor EE344 to descend to a very low altitude and the aircraft flew into a tree at Langley Burrel, Wiltshire. The aircraft was destroyed, and the pilot was killed.
Crew of Meteor EE344:
F/Lt (IND/3348) Dinshaw Sorah BAMJEE (pilot) RIAF - killed in service 8.3.46, commemorated on Panel 286 the Runnymede Memorial
Langley Burrell is a village ten miles north-north-east RAF Colerne, but only one-a-half miles north east of Chippenham, Wiltshire, England. at approximate co-ordinates 51°28′ 33.6″ N, 2°5′ 52.8″ W.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p, 33 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft EA100-EZ999
3. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.88
4. 74 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book) (Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1-1-43 to 31-12-50: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/2431 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2505069 5. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1083286/DINSHAW%20SORAB%20BAMJEE/ 6.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15244950/dinshaw-sorab-bamjee 7. "RAF Write-offs 1946": Air Britain Aeromilitaria 1979 p.96:
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_1979.pdf 8.
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/3348 9. Air Britain Aeromilitaria Summer 2009:
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_2009.pdf p.72
10.
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=2051 11.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langley_Burrell 12.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._74_Squadron_RAF#Meteors,_Hunters_and_Lightnings Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
20-Jun-2021 00:57 |
Dr. John Smith |
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20-Jun-2021 00:57 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
20-Jun-2021 01:04 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
20-Jun-2021 08:29 |
Sysel |
Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator] |
20-Jun-2021 21:13 |
Dr. John Smith |
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