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Date: | Tuesday 15 November 1949 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor Mk VII |
Owner/operator: | 203 AFS RAF |
Registration: | VW448 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Kirkburn, 3 miles South West of Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St. George, near Darlington, County Durham |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor T.7 VW448, 203 AFS, RAF: Written off (destroyed) 15 November 1949 when crashed at Kirkburn, 3 miles South West of Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire. The aircraft was engaged on an asymmetric flying and circuit training sortie. Immediately after take-off, the aircraft flew into a fog bank. The aircraft emerged from the fog bank in a shallow dive, and struck a dozen lighting poles at an altitude of 15 feet with its starboard wing.
The aircraft then hit a road, bounced back into the air, continued on for a bout 300 yards, disintegrating in the process, before coming to a halt in a ploughed field.
Pilot II P G Rees, RAF (aged 25) killed.
Sources:
1. Death notices and funeral reports of which I have copies from the Barry & District News, published in the weeks after the death and the ensuing funeral
2. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
3. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.582
4. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VW 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkburn Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Mar-2016 14:19 |
Taffdiver |
Added |
18-Oct-2019 17:19 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Registration, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
05-Nov-2019 10:22 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |