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Date: | Thursday 9 September 1954 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 8 |
Owner/operator: | 64 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WF704 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1 mile W of Neatishead, Norfolk -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WF704: Delivered 19/7/51. RAF Service was with 65 Squadron and 64 Squadron (in that order).
Written off 9/9/54: Following a completion of a sortie at 30,000 feet, the pilot of this aircraft, and also that of Meteor WA983 became involved in a series of mock dogfights with another pair of Meteors and some DH Sea Venoms of the Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy. During this mock dogfight, the two Meteors collided with each other, and both pilots bailed out safely. Meteor WF704 came down one mile west of Neatishead, Norfolk
Crew of Meteor WF704:
Flying Officer R. P. DEAS, RAF (pilot, Service Number 4082590)
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.162 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.16)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.88
4. The Gloster Meteor in British Service By Martin Derry
5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WF 6.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/41143/supplement/4649/data.pdf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
06-Jun-2008 22:40 |
JINX |
Added |
13-May-2015 07:42 |
BlB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
21-Apr-2020 23:46 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |