Date:	Friday 15 September 1950
Time:	day
Type:	Avro Anson T Mk 21
Owner/operator:	11 RFS RAF
Registration:	VV250
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Scone (Perth) Airfield, Perth, Scotland -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Scone (Perth) Airfield, Perth, Scotland (PSL/EGPT)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Avro Anson T.21 VV250/"RCR-W", 11 RFS (Reserve Flying School), RAF: Written off (destroyed) 15/9/1950: The pilot was performing a local training flight with a second RAF Avro Anson VV299. While cruising beneath the second Anson, the pilot made a wrong manouevere, letting his aircraft climb, and hitting the left wing of the second Anson with his tail. He lost control of his airplane, which dove into the ground and crashed in a field located in Scone, northeast of Perth. The aircraft was destroyed and the pilot was killed.

Crew of Anson VV250:
Pilot II Alexander George MURDOCH, RAF (pilot) - killed on active service 15-9-1950

The pilot of the second aircraft was able to land safely.(VV299 made a successful emergency landing at Perth, but was written off in a later crash on 7/5/1953)

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.106 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.83
4. The Anson File (Ray Sturtivant, Air Britain, 1988)
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VV
6. https://www.baaa-acro.com/index.php/crash/crash-avro-652-anson-t21-scone-1-killed
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scone,_Scotland
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Airport,_Scotland

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Sep-2008 01:00	ASN archive	Added
16-Apr-2012 22:21	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
11-Mar-2019 07:22	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]
30-Dec-2020 21:02	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Source, Narrative]
30-Dec-2020 21:07	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source]