Date:	Wednesday 19 August 1953
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10
Owner/operator:	5 RFS RAF
Registration:	WK523
MSN:	C1/0561
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Walmley Ash Road, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Castle Bromwich, Staffordshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DHC-10 Chipmunk T.10 WK523, 5 RFS, RAF: Written off (destroyed) 19/8/53: Whilst performing aerobatics, the controls jammed, forcing the Cadet pilot (Flight Cadet J K Jennings) to abandon his aircraft at 2,000 feet. The aircraft dived into the ground at Sutton Coldfield, striking some trees, and two bungalows, severely damaging them. Aircraft destroyed, pilot bailed out safely.

According to one published source (see link #8):

"Chipmunk WK523 of 5 RFS based at Castle Bromwich had its controls jam when the pilot, Flight Cadet J K Jennings, was performing aerobatics and had just completed a Derry Turn. Unable to free them, he baled out at 2,000 feet. The aircraft descended in a flattish turn to the right, struck a tree, a telegraph pole and two bungalows which were severely damaged (by fire?); the aircraft coming down in Walmley Ash Road, Sutton Coldfield. The station fire officer at Sutton Coldfield, Donald Whitton, when dispatched to the site was dismayed to discover that the aircraft had crashed into his home!"

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.149 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 405
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 67)
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/170: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424291
5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/32/S2651: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578497
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK
7. http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=343
8. http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/nwcrashes1945-52.htm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
18-Jun-2008 12:11	JINX	Added
11-Nov-2011 10:56	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
21-Nov-2018 19:54	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator]
03-Jan-2020 00:11	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Narrative]
03-Jan-2020 08:44	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Operator]
04-May-2021 18:41	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]
10-May-2021 15:53	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Departure airport]