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Date: | Friday 13 September 1946 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk III |
Owner/operator: | CGS RAF |
Registration: | EE490 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Lickham Hall Farm, Scorborough Lane, Scorborough, Yorkshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Leconfield, Beverely, East Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.III EE490: Delivered to 39 MU RAF Colerene, Chippenham, Wiltshire 15.3.46. To CGS (Central Gunnery School), RAF Leconfield, Beverely, East Yorkshire 3.6.46.
Written off (destroyed) 13.9.46: Broke up in air during slow roll and crashed, Lickham Hall Farm, Scorborough Lane, Scorborough, North Yorkshire; the aircraft began a slow roll at very high speed, but also at a very low altitude. The Meteor's nose was seen to drop, and a 'cloud of flying fragments' were seen to come the airframe, which then broke up in flight completely, and dived into the ground. The cause of the in-flight structural break up was never ascertained. The pilot was killed
Crew of Meteor EE490:
S/Ldr (61215) Eric Percy William Bocock DFC (Pilot) RAF killed on active service 13-9-46,
buried at St. Catherine's Churchyard, Leconfield, East Yorkshire
Scorborough is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the A164 road, about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Beverley and 8 miles (13 km) south of Driffield. It forms part of the civil parish of Leconfield.
NOTE: Several published sources confuse "Scorborough" (East Yorkshire) with the much better-known seaside resort of "SCARBOROUGH" (North Yorkshire). The two locations are approx. 30 miles apart.
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. "RAF Write-offs 1946": Air Britain Aeromilitaria 1979 p.103:
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_1979.pdf 3. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.216
4. Royal Air Force Aircraft EA100-EZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1988 p 21)
5. Air Britain Aeromilitaria Summer 2009 p.77:
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_2009.pdf 6. ORB Central Gunnery School RAF FOR 1-1-1946 to 31-12-1950: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR29/1789:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4101499 7.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2408308/eric-percy-william-bocock/ 8.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13215618/eric-percy_william-bocock 9.
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=EE490 10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorborough Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Jun-2023 16:42 |
Dr. John Smith |
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03-Jun-2023 16:43 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated |
04-Jun-2023 08:20 |
Nepa |
Updated |