Date:	Saturday 15 August 1953
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.112 Venom FB Mk 1
Owner/operator:	14 Sqn RAF
Registration:	WE367
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Boulmer, near Alnwick, Northumberland, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Fassberg, Germany (ETHS)
Destination airport:	RAF Boulmer, Northumberland (EGOM)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland Venom WE367, 14 Squadron, RAF: Delivered 22/7/1953. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 15/8/1953 when crashed at RAF Boulmer, near Alnwick, Northumberland

The aircraft was on patrol at 40,000 feet, under the control of the ADSC (Air Defence Section Controller), when the engine failed. The pilot called on the R/T to the ADSC, and was given a course to steer to RAF Acklington, Northumberland. The aircraft descended to 10,000 feet, while trying, without success, to relight the engine.

The pilot then continued to descend through a gap in the clouds, and saw the disused airfield at RAF Boulmer, near Alnwick, Northumberland. He then set the aircraft up for a landing at Boulmer. However, at the last minute, the pilot realised that the runway at RAF Boulmer was obstructed, and therefore he committed himself to a wheels-up belly landing on the ploughed field beside the runway.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.148 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 Colin Cummings p 394-395
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p 32)
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH112%20prodn%20list.txt
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Boulmer.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
04-Jun-2008 09:26	JINX	Added
18-Jun-2008 10:55	JINX	Updated
28-May-2015 14:58	T.T.Taylor	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
18-Oct-2018 14:54	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
09-May-2021 17:26	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
09-May-2021 17:26	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
09-May-2021 17:27	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
10-May-2021 12:55	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
12-May-2021 14:14	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]