Date:	Tuesday 29 November 1955
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	65 (East India) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WL141
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England. -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:	RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WL141: Notified as awaiting collection 14/12/53, delivered 21/12/53. RAF service career was with 257 Squadron, 64 Squadron and 65 Squadron

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 29/11/55: Undercarriage jammed and collapsed on landing, aircraft swung off the runway at RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Not repaired and struck off charge as Cat.5(c) in November 1955

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.177 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 72)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.141
4. 65 Sqaudron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/51 to 31/12/55: File AIR 27/2626/3 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8424986
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WL

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Jun-2008 19:16	JINX	Added
27-May-2013 06:22	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport]
06-Jun-2020 15:21	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
16-Jul-2023 21:53	Nepa	Updated [[Time, Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]]