Date:	Tuesday 1 May 1956
Time:	night
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5
Owner/operator:	5 FTS RAF
Registration:	VZ332
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.Mk 5 VZ332: Delivered 3/4/50. RAF Service career was with 54 Squadron, 72 Squadron, and 5 FTS.

Written off 1/5/1956: Dived into the ground at night after loss of control on take off from Oakington, Cambridgeshire. The pilot was recalled by ATC at RAF Oakington due to adverse weather conditions. The pilot repaired to ATC that he was in cloud at 1,000 feet, and would head back to Oakington at that altitude. ATC at Oakington advised him to descend to 900 feet (below the cloud base).

After acknowledging this message, nothing more was heard from the pilot of Vampire VZ332. The aircraft suddenly dived into the ground inverted near RAF Oakington, and the pilot was killed.

Crew of Vampire VZ332:
Pilot Officer Trevor Gomer Morgan Edwards RAF (pilot, aged 20)

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.179 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p.104)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.192
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt
6. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VZ

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Mar-2013 02:41	Dr. John Smith	Added
25-Dec-2018 21:04	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator]
10-Jan-2020 20:47	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Operator]
15-Jun-2020 19:47	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
15-Jun-2020 22:05	Digger	Updated [Operator, Operator]