ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 144524
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| Date: | Wednesday 6 November 1957 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Hawker Hunter F Mk 4 |
| Owner/operator: | 229 OCU RAF |
| Registration: | WW660 |
| MSN: | HABL/003... |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon (EGDC) |
| RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon (EGDC) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Hawker Hunter F.Mk.4 WW660: Built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd., Blackpool, Lancashire. Delivered to the RAF on 6-4-1955 at 33 MU RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire. Issued to 118 Squadron, RAF Jever, West Germany as "B" on 27-4-1955. Transferred to 229 OCU, RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon, on 29-3-1957 as "RS-P"
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 6-11-1957: Made an emergency landing at Chivenor, Devon after the port undercarriage jammed. It swung off the runway, hit an old oil drum and an ATC aerial mast. It was not repaired and was withdrawn to 5 MU RAF Kemble as a "non-effective" airframe.
Struck off charge as Cat.5(scrap) sold for scrap on 1-10-58 to R.J.Coley, Hounslow, although reported still at 5 MU Kemble on 31-5-61
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.194 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.2
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
5. http://www.rafjever.org/118sqnpic151.htm
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WW
7. http://www.rafjever.org/118squadaircraft.htm#ww660
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Mar-2012 11:17 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 04-Dec-2018 09:27 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator] |
| 11-Aug-2020 22:15 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 12-Aug-2020 08:33 | Newton | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator] |
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