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Date: | Tuesday 7 August 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.112 Venom FB Mk 1 |
Owner/operator: | 16 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WE431 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 5 miles SW of Wunstorf, Hannover, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Wunstorf, Germany (ETNW) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:De Havilland DH.112 Venom FB.Mk.1 WE431, 16 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) 7/8/56 - Crashed five miles South West of Wunstorf, district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, West Germany after the pilot ejected following a fire warning.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.182 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 33)
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/350:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424471 4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/35/S2831:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578611 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE 6.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH112%20prodn%20list.txt 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunstorf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Jun-2008 16:55 |
JINX |
Added |
18-Jun-2008 07:14 |
JINX |
Updated |
28-May-2015 15:21 |
T.T.Taylor |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
20-Jan-2020 19:25 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
05-Jul-2022 06:44 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |