Date:	Tuesday 10 April 1956
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hunter F Mk 1
Owner/operator:	229 OCU RAF
Registration:	WT659
MSN:	41H-665494
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	into River Taw, 1 mile east of RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon (EGDC)
Destination airport:	RAF Chivenor, Devon (EGDC)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Hawker Hunter F.Mk.1 WT659: First flown at Hawker Aircraft Ltd., Dunsfold, Surrey 6/10/1954, delivered 24/11/1954 to 54 Squadron, RAF Odiham (coded "D" later "U"). Then to 229 OCU RAF Chivenor from the end of September 1955

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 10/4/56: Stalled on approach to Chivenor, Devon and crashed into the river Taw, one mile to the east of the airfield killing the pilot. The aircraft was returning to RAF Chivenor at the end of a training sortie. Having flown a normal downwind approach leg, the Hunter began to turn onto its final approach when the engine ceased. The aircraft then stalled, assumed a marked "nose-up" position, rolled to starboard and dived into the River Taw.

Crew of Hunter WT659:
Flying Officer Terrence Joseph Maguire RAF (pilot, Service Number 2608811, aged 23)

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.179 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p.96)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.188
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
5. http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/1998/10/stuff_eng_profile_hunter.htm
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WT
7. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html

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23 March 1956

WT658

CFE DFLS RAF

0

near Bildeston, 3 miles SSW of RAF Wattisham, Suffolk

w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jan-2009 11:55	ASN archive	Added
04-Dec-2011 16:08	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
12-Nov-2018 15:26	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
13-Jun-2020 23:32	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
14-Jun-2020 08:17	MIG29	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Nature, Destination airport, Operator]