Date:	07-JAN-1954
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.Mk 5
Owner/operator:	233 Operational Conversion Unit Royal Air Force (233 OCU RAF)
Registration:	WA277
C/n / msn:	EEP/42...
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	1 mile NE of RAF Pembrey, Caernarvonshire, Wales -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Pembrey, Carmarthenshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.5 WA277, 233 OCU RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 7 January 1954 when engine failed on take-off, belly landed in field after a wheels-up force landing, one mile North East of RAF Pembrey, Caernarvonshire. No fatalities or casualties reported.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.154 ISBN 0-85130-290-4
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 9)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 tro 2009 by Colin Cummings p.24
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt
6. http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=972

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
28-May-2008 14:52	JINX	Added
08-Jun-2008 21:38	JINX	Updated
17-May-2015 07:20	MiG21	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport]
09-Jan-2020 22:06	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Nature, Operator]
22-Feb-2020 18:20	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Narrative]
22-Feb-2020 18:20	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
23-Feb-2020 09:39	Iwosh	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
04-Apr-2020 21:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Source, Narrative]