Date:	Sunday 13 April 1947
Time:	night
Type:	Avro Anson Mk I
Owner/operator:	10 ANS RAF
Registration:	LV222
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire

Narrative:
Avro Anson LV222: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 13/04/1947 when forced landed after running out of fuel near RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire

The Anson was being flown at low level at night on a navigation exercise to and from RAF Driffield. The aircraft flew into low level fog, and the crew became lost. The pilot should have then climbed the aircraft, and bailed out the crew, but he delayed this action until the aircraft's fuel state became critical. At that point it became impossible to bail out.

A forced landing due to fuel exhaustion was then made near RAF Driffield, and two of the four crew sustained injuries. The Anson was written off as Cat. E(FA)

NOTE: Claims that one of the crew was killed cannot be substantiated. Only two RAF Personnel were recorded as killed on 13 April 1947: Sgt Gewrgis Shaino (1771) died in Iraq, and W/O Edgar Samuel Juryeff (509020) died in hospital in Southampton. The latter death is probably the (incorrect) source of the belief that one of the crew of Anson LV222 was killed.

1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.67. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.289
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft LA100-LZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. The Anson File (Ray Sturtivant, Air Britain, 1988)
5. 10 ANS RAF ORB for the period 1-1-1946 to 28-2-1948: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR29/1783: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4101493
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Driffield

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-May-2023 18:56	Dr. John Smith	Added
19-May-2023 20:34	Nepa	Updated