Date:	Wednesday 9 March 1955
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T Mk 11
Owner/operator:	5 FTS RAF
Registration:	XD462
MSN:	15307
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Written off (damaged beyond repair) on 9/6/1955: the fire warning light came on shortly after take off from Oakington, Cambridgeshire, resulting in a downwind forced landing. The port tyre burst and then the port undercarriage leg collapsed causing damage to the nose wheel, fuselage and port mainplane.

Wreckage recovered to Marshall's of Cambridge Ltd., Teversham, Cambridge, where struck off charge 5/5/55 as Cat.5(c) and broken up for spares and scrap at Teversham

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.168 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p.16)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.119
4. The History of the De Havilland Vampire By David Watkins
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XD
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH115%20prodn%20list.txt
7. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh115.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
01-Mar-2013 17:04	Dr. John Smith	Added
06-Mar-2013 11:34	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type]
25-Dec-2018 20:58	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator]
10-Jan-2020 11:41	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
08-May-2020 00:48	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
11-Jul-2023 22:03	Nepa	Updated [[Time, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]]