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Date: | Monday 28 February 1949 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 |
Owner/operator: | 1 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | VT140 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | English Channel, off the coast of West Sussex, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Tangmere, Chichester, West Sussex |
Destination airport: | RAF Tangmere, West Sussex |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.4 VT140: Delivered to 1 Squadron, RAF Tangmere, Chichester, West Sussex, 28.5.48.
Written off (presumed destroyed) 28.2.49 when went missing on air-to-sea firing practice; presumed crashed in sea off the coast of West Sussex. The pilot had been "reproved" (reprimanded) on a previous occasion about his very low-level flying, while engaged in air-to-ground firing against ground targets. During this sortie, from RAF Tangmere, on another air-to-ground firing sortie against a ground target, the Meteor failed to pull out of the dive in time, and flew into the sea at high speed.
Aircraft presumed destroyed and pilot killed; however, there seem to have been no witnesses to the incident.
Crew:
P. III Sgt (1609431) Gordon Edward Thomas FOREST (pilot) RAF - missing, presumed killed
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd, ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.480
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_2009.pdf p.172
5. 1 Squadron ORB for March 1949: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/
6.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=vt 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._1_Squadron_RAF#Post-War 8.
https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/gordon-edward-thomas-forest-24-1dvgf92 9.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Tangmere#Postwar Revision history:
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