Date:	Monday 22 July 1946
Time:	night
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	BCIS RAF
Registration:	PP757
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Finningley, South Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Finningley, South Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Finningley, South Yorkshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Avro Lancaster PP757, BCIS (Bomber Command Instructors School), RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 22 July 1946 when flew into ground on approach on a three-engine overshoot and belly landed at RAF Finningley, South Yorkshire. The pilot failed to check the rate of descent on final approach to RAF Finningley in the final stages of a three-engine approach at night, and the aircraft struck the ground heavily. No fatalities or injuries reported.

The Bomber Command Instructors School had been established at Finningley in December 1944 and this organisation, with a variety of bomber types, saw out the remaining months of the war at this station and did not depart until the spring of 1947.

1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.47. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. The Lancaster File (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p 132)
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.186
5. "RAF Write-offs 1946": Air Britain Aeromilitaria 1979 p.101: https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_1979.pdf
6. BCIS ORB (Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) January 1946-January 1947: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/1786 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4101496
7. https://www.avro-lancaster.info/ppseries/PP757
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Finningley#Post_Second_World_War

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
24-Sep-2013 02:28	JINX	Added
14-Sep-2019 06:51	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
15-Nov-2019 21:01	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
18-Dec-2019 22:39	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator]
14-Jun-2023 08:45	Nepa	Updated [[Operator, Nature, Operator]]
15-Jun-2023 20:03	Dr. John Smith	Updated [[[Operator, Nature, Operator]]]