ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 58349
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| Date: | Tuesday 11 October 1955 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Hawker Hunter F1 |
| Owner/operator: | 229 OCU RAF |
| Registration: | WW607 |
| MSN: | 41H-680276 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 2 miles West of RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Chivenor, Devon (EGDC) |
| RAF Chivenor, Devon (EGDC) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Hawker Hunter F.Mk.1 WW607: Delivered to RAF at 5 MU Kemble 3/11/1954. Service history was with 54 Squadron at RAF Odiham, Hampshire, thence to 229 OCU.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 11/10/55 when crashed on approach at RAF Chivenor, Devon. Engine lost power on overshoot, and aircraft force landed on sand dunes two miles west of the airfield. The pilot - Pilot Officer W S Carmichael - was unhurt.
Aircraft not repaired: Struck off charge as Cat5(G/I). To ground instructional airframe 7290M 9/11/55, scrapped at RAF Manby 1/3/61.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.175 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 105)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.141
4. Hawker Hunter 1951 to 2007 p.43 by D.J. Smith
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WW
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 18 September 1956 | WW606 | 229 OCU RAF | 0 | RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon | |
w/o |
| 14 June 1966 | E-417 | Flyvevåbnet | 0 | 12 km NW of Ribe |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Jan-2009 11:55 | ASN archive | Added |
| 04-Dec-2011 14:12 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Total occupants, Other fatalities, Country, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Mar-2012 06:32 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 31-Mar-2012 16:50 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Narrative] |
| 04-Dec-2018 09:17 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Nature, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 29-May-2020 15:56 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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