ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 20878
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| Date: | Friday 23 June 1967 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Gloster Meteor T Mk 7 |
| Owner/operator: | 229 OCU RAF |
| Registration: | WH208 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | RAF Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Chivenor, Devon (EGDC) |
| RAF Bovingdon, Hertfordshire (EBNN) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Overshot landing on wet runway at RAF Bovingdon, Hertfordshire on 23/6/1967 and hit hedge. Deemed to have been damaged beyond economic repair, and struck off charge 18/7/1967 as CAT 5(C).
Wreckage to 71 MU RAF Bicester, Oxfordshire, where scrapped in 1970 (still there, damaged but largely intact 15/3/69)
Sources:
1. RAF Aircraft WA100 - WZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain 1983)
2. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?78785-71-MU-Bicester
3. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1967.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Jun-2008 20:09 | JINX | Added |
| 26-Jan-2013 18:40 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Aug-2013 15:35 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 12-May-2015 08:18 | yari | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 30-Apr-2021 21:15 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Nature, Destination airport, Operator] |
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