Date:	Wednesday 21 November 1956
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5
Owner/operator:	229 OCU RAF
Registration:	WA121
MSN:	EEP/42...
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Dunkery Hill, Exmoor, 6 miles South West of Porlock, Somerset -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon (EGDC)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5 WA121: Delivered 2/6/1950. RAF Service career was with 4 Squadron from 24/7/1950 as "UP-C" later "C"; to 19 MU RAF St.Athan 11/3/1954. Then to 229 OCU RAF Chivenor, Devon

Written off (destroyed) 21/11/1956: Flew in high ground in cloud into the 1,358 foot (414 metre) Dunkery Hill, on Exmoor, six miles South West of Porlock, Somerset. Aircraft was being flown in cloud at an altitude which was below the advised safety height. Pilot killed

Crew of Vampire WA121:
Flying Officer Charles William Powell, RAF (pilot, Service Number 3511270, aged 27) - killed on active service 21/11/1956, buried at St. Augustine's Churchyard, Heanton Punchardon, North Devon

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.183 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 9)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.219
4. Wings Over Somerset: Aircraft Crashes since the End of World War II By Peter Forrester
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA
7. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html
8. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
9. http://www.rafjever.org/4squadaircraft.htm
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkery_Hill

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
01-Mar-2008 08:23	JINX	Added
08-Jun-2008 21:32	JINX	Updated
11-Mar-2013 13:54	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
18-May-2015 18:07	MiG21	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
15-Jul-2020 21:03	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
16-Jul-2020 10:07	Yarbi	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator]
16-Jul-2020 19:55	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]