Date:	Friday 17 July 1953
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor NF Mk 11
Owner/operator:	228 OCU RAF
Registration:	WM166
MSN:	S4/U/2341
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor NF.11 WM166, 228 OCU, RAF Leeming: delivered 22/9/1952. Written off 17/7/1953, in an accident at RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire.

Aircraft undershot when on final approach to RAF Leeming due to adverse weather conditions and poor visisbility. The undercariage collapsed on impact due to a "hard" landing. Despite the aircraft being wrecked (deemed "damaged beyond repair") both crew escaped without injury.

Wreckage formally struck off charge as Cat.5(c) on 27/7/1953 at 60 MU RAF Rufforth, North Yorkshire, and authorised to be reduced to spares and produce

WM166 was built by Armstrong-Whitworth, and, as such, was displayed on their stand at the 1952 SBAC Air Show at Farnborough on 1-7/9/1952 (see links #6 & #7)

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.147 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 389
3. 228 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/3/1951 to 31/12/1955: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR AIR 29/2166 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4101876
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WM
5. http://web.archive.org/web/20160310233713/http://ejection-history.org.uk/squadron_228_ocu/squadron_228ocu.htm
6. Meteor WM166 at SBAC Airshow, Farnborough, September 1952: https://wings-on-film.fandom.com/wiki/WM166
7. http://farnboroughspotter.weebly.com/1952.html
8. https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW046640

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Mar-2014 08:15	Nepa	Added
04-May-2021 19:32	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
05-May-2021 08:26	INV	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Nature, Operator]
05-May-2021 12:01	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]