Date:	Thursday 29 March 1956
Time:	night
Type:	De Havilland DH.112 Venom NF Mk 2
Owner/operator:	253 (Hyderabad State) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WL847
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:	RAF Waterbeach, Cambridegshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.112 Venom WL847, 253 (Hyderabad State) Squadron RAF - Written off 29/3/1956: Declared a write off (damaged beyond repair) after overshooting on landing at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire.

Note: The date of "29/3/1956" is the date when the aircraft was struck off charge as Cat.5(c), which may not necessarily have been the date of the incident (it could have crashed at an earlier date; one source gives the date of the accident as "Cat.4(R) flying accident 27/10/55. To De Havillands for repairs 21/11/55 but not repaired and Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(c) 29/3/56

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 76)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.187
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
5. http://www.dehavilland.ukf.net/_DH112%20prodn%20list.txt
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WL

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
14-Mar-2013 20:57	Dr. John Smith	Added
05-Apr-2013 18:40	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location]
30-May-2013 13:24	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
20-Jan-2020 20:03	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Source, Narrative]
13-Jun-2020 21:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]