Date:	Friday 19 December 1952
Time:	day
Type:	Canadair Sabre F4 (F-86E)
Owner/operator:	1 OFU RAF
Registration:	XB534
MSN:	365
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	11 miles South East of Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Ferry/positioning
Departure airport:	Keflavik, Iceland (KEF/BIKF)
Destination airport:	Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland (PIK/EGPK)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Ex-RCAF Canadair CL-13 (F-86E) Sabre: RCAF serial 19465 assigned when this aircraft was ordered, but diverted to the RAF before completion, and became XB534. Written off when crashed 19 December 1952 eleven miles south-east of Prestwick, Ayrshire, after entering clouds at the end of a ferry flight to UK from Keflavik, Iceland. Aircraft was in formation with two other Sabres, but became lost in cloud, and separated from the other two. Aircraft dived into the ground at high speed. Pilot did not eject, and was killed.

Pilot of Sabre XB534:
Flight Sergeant Alan Percival Pugh RAF (pilot, aged 31)

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p. 139 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 322
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p.10)
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT 233/131: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424252
5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/32/S2611: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578457
6. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1952.htm
7. http://www.rwrwalker.ca/RCAF_19451_19500_detailed.htm
8. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html
9. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XB

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
13-Mar-2013 04:44	Dr. John Smith	Added
30-May-2013 16:17	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
25-Jun-2013 17:44	TB	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
14-Oct-2013 18:43	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
20-Dec-2013 16:05	TB	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
20-Dec-2013 16:11	TB	Updated [Location, Narrative]
27-Feb-2017 00:05	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
18-Mar-2018 16:16	TB	Updated [Operator, Location]
31-Dec-2019 21:07	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
01-Jan-2020 17:00	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Operator]