Date:	Friday 23 March 1956
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hunter F1
Owner/operator:	CFE DFLS RAF
Registration:	WT658
MSN:	41H-665494
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Bildeston, 3 miles SSW of RAF Wattisham, Suffolk -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Wattisham, Suffolk (EGUW)
Destination airport:	RAF Wattisham, Suffolk (EGUW)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
First flown 6/10/1954, delivered 24/11/1954: Sole RAF service career was with the CFE DFLS (Central Fighter Establishment Day Fighter Leaders School).

Written off 23/03/1956: Crashed near Bildeston, 3 miles south-south-west of RAF Wattisham, Suffolk. Pilot, Day Fighter Leaders School Flight Lieutenant R. Watson RAF ejected after the ejector seat malfunctioned and ejected him involuntarily. However, he landed safely with only minor injuries.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.178 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 96)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.184
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
5. http://web.archive.org/web/20170723045955/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1956.htm
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WT
7. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildeston

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

10 April 1956

WT659

229 OCU RAF

1

into River Taw, 1 mile east of RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon

w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jan-2009 11:55	ASN archive	Added
04-Dec-2011 15:58	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
15-Mar-2013 23:32	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Source, Narrative]
13-Mar-2019 13:40	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Narrative]
13-Jun-2020 20:14	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
14-Jun-2020 08:18	harry	Updated [Operator, Operator]
14-Jun-2020 22:30	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location]