Date:	Monday 28 September 1953
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	226 OCU RAF
Registration:	WH407
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Honington, Suffolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Honington, Suffolk
Destination airport:	RAF Honington, Suffolk
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WH407, 226 OCU, RAF Honington: delivered 20/3/1952. Written off (destroyed) 28/9/1953, when crashed at RAF Honington, Suffolk

The aircraft flew into the ground after the pilot failed to take the appropriate recovery action from a dive at high altitude. Cause unknown, but possible anoxia (oxygen starvation) may have been a part of the reason that the pilot failed to pull out of the terminal dive. The pilot was killed

Crew of Meteor WH407:
Pilot Officer Charles Kennedy GROVER (pilot) RAF - killed in service 28/9/1953

Wreckage recovered and Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(s) 13/10/1953.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.150 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 415
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
4. 226 OCU ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/5/1955: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2165/1 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162873
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WH

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Jun-2008 08:28	JINX	Added
12-May-2015 17:11	BlB	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location]
17-May-2021 13:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Time, Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
17-May-2021 20:13	Angel Dick one	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative, Operator]