Date:	Monday 20 July 1953
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10
Owner/operator:	1 BFTS RAF
Registration:	WB705
MSN:	C1/0222
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Booker, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Booker, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Destination airport:	RAF Booker, Buckinghamshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
DHC-1 Chipmunk T10, WB705, 1 BFTS (Basic Flying Training School) RAF: delivered 19/12/1950. Written off 20/7/1953 in a landing accident at RAF Booker, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The aircraft undershot on landing, and struck a gun emplacement in the long grass near the undershoot area.

Although the aircraft was wrecked (deemed "damaged beyond economic repair") the crew were uninjured. Wreckage sold to DeHavillands, and refurbished/rebuilt for further service: to Sri Lankan Air Force as CT-101, since written off in Sri Lankan service.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.147 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.391
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WB

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
01-Jun-2008 17:41	JINX	Added
07-Jun-2008 22:06	JINX	Updated
19-Nov-2018 18:45	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator]
04-May-2021 01:59	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Destination airport, Source]
04-May-2021 20:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
05-May-2021 08:33	Iwosh	Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Operator]