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Date: | Tuesday 1 May 1951 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor T Mk 7 |
Owner/operator: | 71 (Eagle) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WF786 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Melle, Osnabruck, 12 miles west of Bielefeld -
Germany
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Gütersloh, West Germany (GUT/ETUO) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor T.Mk.7 WF786, 71 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) 1/5/51 when the aircraft's cockpit canopy detached from the aircraft in flight during a high speed run and the tail detached. The pilot abandoned the aircraft and bailed out near Melle, Osnabruck, Lower Saxony, 12 miles West of Bielefeld
WF786 had a very short service life: it had only been delivered on 17/4/1951, just two weeks earlier.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.113 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 Colin Cummings p 133
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/48:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424169 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WF 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melle,_Germany Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Jun-2008 02:28 |
JINX |
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16-Jan-2012 13:13 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source] |
03-Jul-2014 10:05 |
angels one five |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
10-May-2015 17:27 |
Angel Dick one |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
27-Dec-2019 20:18 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
27-Dec-2019 21:37 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
19-Mar-2021 18:04 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator] |