Date:	Tuesday 2 March 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Canadair CL-13 Sabre F.4 (F-86E)
Owner/operator:	422 (Tomahawk) Sqn RCAF
Registration:	XB763
MSN:	537
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Aniche, Nord department in the Hauts-de-France -   France
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Baden-Sollingen (G)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Formation of 50 Canadian jets, involved in a NATO exercise (Exercise "Magnaflux"), was caught in a snowstorm over Maubeuge. Two planes crashed: XB825 at Assevent and XB763 at Emerchicourt. The pilots had managed to parachute safely.

Flying Officer F K Axtell was flying F-86E Sabre F.4 XB763 when he ran out of fuel during a sortie from Baden-Sollingen, West Germany while operating with 422 Sqn RCAF. He elected to bail out and survived the ejection. Ironically, the Sabre continued towards what proved to be a perfect belly landing (without pilot or canopy) near the village of Aniche.

1. Saskatoon Star-Phoenix 2 March 1954, p1
2. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.156 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p 10)
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1954.htm
5. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?4458-R.C.A.F.-crashes-on-2nd-March-1954-in-France
6. http://67.69.104.76:84/Grostenquin/photos/support2/pgt-1814.jpg
7. http://web.archive.org/web/20171106225143/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/Aircraft_by_Type/Canadair_Sabre.htm
8. http://members.shaw.ca/displayhome/potpourri.htm
9. http://www.rwrwalker.ca/RCAF_19601_19650_detailed.htm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
29-Apr-2011 17:12	Daniel Nole	Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
26-Aug-2011 08:23	Uli Elch	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative]
05-Sep-2012 14:19	Daniel Nole	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
24-Dec-2013 15:10	TB	Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
30-Jan-2014 20:56	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
25-May-2015 18:30	Oezil	Updated [Operator]
25-Dec-2017 20:12	TB	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
31-Jan-2020 20:42	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source]
31-Jan-2020 22:45	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Operator]
24-Feb-2020 16:58	Xindel XL	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport, Operator]