Date:	Friday 26 March 1954
Time:
Type:	Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
Owner/operator:	605 (County of Warwick) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WA734
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Honiley, Warwickshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Honiley, Warwickshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Meteor WA734: Delivered 11/1/51. RAF Service was with 229 OCU, RAF Stradishall Stn Flt and 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron RAF.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) The pilot was unable to control the aircraft's swing on take off, and therefore raised the undercarriage to facilitate an emergency stop at RAF Honiley, Warwickshire. An engine caught fire, and the aircraft sustained serious damage - serious enough to render the airframe "beyond economic repair". 26/03/1954.
Crew:
F/Lt (607095) George Michael SCARROTT (pilot) RAF - Ok

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.155 ISBN 0-85130-290-4
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 12)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.47
4. “We Never Slept” - The Story of 605 Squadron by Ian Piper p. 208: http://www.605squadron.co.uk/We%20Never%20Slept%20-%20The%20Story%20of%20605%20Squadron.pdf
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA
6. http://www.605squadron.co.uk/squadron_aircraft.html
7. http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1950-88.htm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
31-May-2008 11:47	JINX	Added
07-Jun-2008 10:25	JINX	Updated
10-Jan-2012 14:50	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source]
23-May-2019 17:05	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Operator]
07-Apr-2020 16:53	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
06-Jan-2022 11:02	Nepa	Updated [Time, Location, Narrative, Operator]