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Date: | Tuesday 24 January 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor NF Mk 14 |
Owner/operator: | CFE RAF |
Registration: | WS784 |
MSN: | AWA. |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Gayton, 7 miles east of Kings Lynn, Norfolk -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF West Raynham, Fakenham, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor NF.Mk.14 WS784: Delivered 23/2/54. RAF Service career was with the CFE (Central Fighter Establishment), RAF West Raynham only
Written off 24/1/1956: Crashed near Gayton, 7 miles east of Kings Lynn, Norfolk after the pilot abandoned the aircraft when it ran out of fuel in bad weather.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.177 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 93)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.176
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm 5.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayton,_Norfolk 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WS Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Mar-2013 00:20 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
10-May-2015 16:49 |
Angel dot comma |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location] |
11-Sep-2016 06:36 |
KEITH SCOTT |
Updated [Registration] |
10-Jun-2020 19:14 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
10-Jun-2020 20:41 |
MIG21 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator] |