Date:	Sunday 6 September 1953
Time:	day
Type:	Auster AOP.6
Owner/operator:	657 Sqn RAF
Registration:	TW561
MSN:	1931
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Monks Gate, one mile West of Lower Beeding, Horsham, West Sussex -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire (EGVP)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Auster AOP.6 TW561, 657 Squadron RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 6 September 1953 when hit overhead telephone wires and crashed near Monks Gate, one mile West of Lower Beeding, Sussex. Aircraft overturned on impact with wires, and the pilot Captain G H Lakes, was injured.

The reported crash location of Monk's Gate is a hamlet in the civil parish of Nuthurst, in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the A281 road 3 miles (5 km) southeast from Horsham, and one mile west of Lower Beeding, a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

Note that some published sources give the crash locations as "Bishops Waltham" which is in Hampshire, and some 44 miles to the west.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.150 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 Colin Cummings p 410
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=1829
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%27s_Gate
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Beeding

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-May-2008 11:10	ASN archive	Added
11-Feb-2013 15:53	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative]
08-Apr-2013 20:47	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
03-Feb-2020 02:00	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative]
14-May-2021 15:52	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]