Date:	Monday 7 January 1952
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire F Mk 1
Owner/operator:	208 AFS RAF
Registration:	TG446
MSN:	EEP/40118
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	White Oxmead Farm 1 mile NE of Peasedown St.John, Somerset, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Merryfield, Somerset
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Vampire TG446: Written off (damaged beyond repair) when ran out of fuel in heavy turbulent cloud, abandoned 1 mile north east of Peasdown St.John, Somerset 7.1.52. The aircraft came down in the grounds of a cottage at White Oxmead Farm, narrowly missing five people, including two children.
Crew Vampire TG446:
F/Lt K A HARVEY (pilot) RAF - bailed out sucessfully, and parachuted to earth approximately two miles away from where his aircraft had came down

Peasedown St John (commonly referred to as Peasedown) is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, standing on a hilltop roughly 5 miles (8 km) south-southwest of the city of Bath, and 2 miles (3 km) north-east of the town of Radstock at the foot of the Mendip Hills.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.123 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.210
4. Wings Over Somerset: Aircraft Crashes since the End of World War II By Peter Forrester
5. 208 AFS ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/11/1951 to 31/5/1954: National Archives (PRO Kew) flie AIR 29/2147 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4101857
6. http://www.dehavilland.ukf.net/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasedown_St_John

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
02-Mar-2013 21:06	Dr. John Smith	Added
04-Dec-2018 20:08	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator, ]
09-Jan-2020 12:43	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, ]
21-Feb-2021 00:45	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Nature, Source, Narrative, ]
21-Feb-2021 00:45	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative, ]
21-Feb-2021 00:45	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative, ]
21-Feb-2021 11:08	Heil	Updated [Operator, Narrative, Operator, ]
04-Aug-2024 20:31	Nepa	Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator, ]