Date:	Tuesday 7 August 1956
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.112 Venom FB Mk 1
Owner/operator:	16 Sqn RAF
Registration:	WE431
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	5 miles SW of Wunstorf, Hannover, Niedersachsen -   Germany
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Wunstorf, Germany (ETNW)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.112 Venom FB.Mk.1 WE431, 16 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) 7/8/56 - Crashed five miles South West of Wunstorf, district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, West Germany after the pilot ejected following a fire warning.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.182 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 33)
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/350: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424471
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/35/S2831: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578611
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH112%20prodn%20list.txt
7. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunstorf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
04-Jun-2008 16:55	JINX	Added
18-Jun-2008 07:14	JINX	Updated
28-May-2015 15:21	T.T.Taylor	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
20-Jan-2020 19:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
05-Jul-2022 06:44	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]