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Date: | Tuesday 25 June 1957 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Auster T.7 |
Owner/operator: | LAS RAF |
Registration: | WE597 |
MSN: | 3715 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1 mile WNW of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Auster T.7 WE597: Delivered 27/4/1951. Operational service career was as "A" of 662 Squadron, RAF and the LAS (Light Aircraft School) at RAF Middle Wallop,
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 25/5/1957: Hit HT overhead cables flying up a valley and dived into the ground, one mile west-north-west of Blandford Forum, Dorset.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.190 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 34)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.253
4.
www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm 5.
http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=4289 6.
http://dorset.hampshireairfields.co.uk/dorcrash.html 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE Media:
Auster T.7 WE597 as "A" of 662 Squadron
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-May-2008 11:10 |
ASN archive |
Added |
04-Jun-2008 22:23 |
JINX |
Updated |
02-Mar-2012 12:43 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
18-Nov-2019 22:09 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
06-Aug-2020 23:16 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
15-Feb-2021 10:32 |
Xindel |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Operator] |
15-Feb-2021 10:33 |
Xindel |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |