Date:	Thursday 5 September 1957
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hunter F Mk 4
Owner/operator:	167 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WT754
MSN:	41H-670696
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Benson, Oxfordshire (BEX/EGUB) England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Benson, Oxfordshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Hawker Hunter F.Mk.4 WT754: First flown 10-03-55 Duncan Simpson, Hawker Aircraft Ltd., Dunsfold, Surrey. Delivered. 02-03-55, 5 MU RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire. To 118 Squadron, RAF Jever, Germany 28-4-55 as "Y". To 167 Squadron from 19-8-57

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 5-9-57 after catching fire during engine start up at RAF Benson, Oxfordshire. Formally Struck off charge as Cat.5(scrap) on 8-10-57, but not actually scrapped until mid-1964

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.192 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 97)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.262
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
5. http://www.rafjever.org/118squadaircraft.htm
6. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WT

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jan-2009 11:55	ASN archive	Added
21-Mar-2012 09:59	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
17-Aug-2012 02:57	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location]
28-May-2013 19:51	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Narrative]
11-Aug-2020 12:00	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Source, Narrative]
11-Aug-2020 12:01	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
17-Jul-2023 07:46	Nepa	Updated [[Narrative]]