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Date: | Tuesday 9 December 1952 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Gloster Meteor NF Mk 11 |
Owner/operator: | 228 OCU RAF |
Registration: | WD757 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor NF.11, WD757, 228 OCU RAF: delivered 8th March 1952. Written off 4th December 1952 when belly landed in very poor weather at night at RAF Linton on Ouse. North Yorkshire on December 9th 1952. Both crew members survived. Wreckage recovered to Armstrong-Whitworth Aircraft at Baginton, Coventry, where struck off charge 1st September 1953 as Cat.5(c)
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.138 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 317
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
4. 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 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WD 5.
https://www.nelsam.org.uk/NEAR/Losses/Losses-PostWWII.htm 6.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160310233713/http://ejection-history.org.uk/squadron_228_ocu/squadron_228ocu.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Jun-2008 05:31 |
JINX |
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05-Mar-2014 08:06 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
26-Feb-2017 22:12 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
26-Feb-2017 22:13 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
01-Apr-2021 02:40 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
01-Apr-2021 10:03 |
Xindel |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Nature, Operator] |
02-Apr-2021 16:39 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
02-Apr-2021 16:40 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |