Date:	Thursday 5 June 1958
Time:
Type:	Gloster Javelin FAW.1
Owner/operator:	87 Sqn RAF
Registration:	XA558
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1.5 miles SE of RAF Brüggen, ‎Elmpt‎, ‎North Rhine-W -   Germany
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:	RAF Brüggen, Elmpt‎, ‎North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany

Narrative:
Both engines flamed out on approach, abandoned and crashed into a corn field 1.5 miles South East of the airfield. According to contemporary reports (see link #3): aircraft entered a "gentle spiral descent, fuel starvation to both engines caused by separate mechanical failures - the starboard engine failed at 6,000 feet followed by the port engine during the final stages of the final approach 11 miles south east of RAF Bruggen".

Pilot, Flight Lieutenant James Ernest Breakwell was killed die to his chute not being fully deployed): the other crew member, Flying Officer J. J. Jackson, ejected safely.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 )James J. Halley, Air Britain, published 2001)
2. Gloster Javelin: An Operation History By Michael Napier, P 169-170
3. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/Aircraft_by_Type/Gloster_Javelin.htm]
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1958.htm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
24-Aug-2011 13:07	Uli Elch	Added
24-Nov-2016 13:34	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
14-Nov-2018 10:09	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, ]