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Date: | Tuesday 27 February 1951 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor T Mk 7 |
Owner/operator: | 205 AFS RAF |
Registration: | WA677 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea, 4 miles off Marske-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St. George, Co. Durham |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor T Mk.7 WA677, 205 AFS (Advanced Flying School) RAF. Delivered 27/4/1950. Written off 27/2/1951 when the aircraft spun into the North Sea, 4 miles off Marske-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire. The aircraft spun into the sea from an altitude of 20,000 feet, and at no point did the pilot attempt to make a recovery. It is therefore presumed that anoxia (Oxygen Starvation) - although the RAF Board of Inquiry into the incident was inconclusive on this matter. The pilot was killed, but huis body was recovered.
Crew of Meteor WA677:
Pilot Officer (Pilot IV) Alan HOLBOW, RAF (pilot, Service Number4037564, aged 26) - killed on active service 27/2/1951, buried at Bradford-on-Avon Municipal Cemetery, Wiltshire
Note that some published sources give the crash location as "off the Durham coast" nearer Seaton Carew/Hartlepool some 15 miles to the North.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.111 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.118
4. 205 AFS ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/5/1954: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2145/2 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162859 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA 6.
http://www.dtvmovements.co.uk/Archivesmonths/1982/1982%20-%20Apr.pdf 7.
https://www.nelsam.org.uk/NEAR/Losses/Losses-PostWWII.htm 8.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39111/supplement/62/data.pdf 9.
https://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Bradford-on-Avon/Bradford-on-Avon%20-%20Municipal%20Cemetery%20Survey.pdf 10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marske-by-the-Sea .
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
31-May-2008 07:14 |
JINX |
Added |
12-Jun-2008 08:42 |
JINX |
Updated |
12-May-2015 07:19 |
Anthony COX |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
12-Jan-2021 15:18 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
13-Jan-2021 15:25 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
13-Jan-2021 15:42 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
13-Jan-2021 20:21 |
T.T.Taylor |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Nature, Departure airport, Operator] |