Date:	Friday 27 August 1954
Time:	night
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	RAF Flying College
Registration:	WH458
MSN:	G5/415587
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Great Weldon, 4 miles S of RAF North Luffenham, Rutland, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Manby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WH458, RAF Flying College: Written off (destroyed) 27/8/54 when went out of control in a spin, dived into ground out of cloud on night exercise at Great Weldon, four miles South of RAF North Luffenham, Rutland. Pilot killed

Crew of Meteor WH458:
W/Cdr Hugh (Aus0387) Augustine Conaghan DFC & bar (pilot) RAAF - killed

Great Weldon is a suburban village and civil parish on the eastern outskirts of Corby, Northamptonshire, two miles away from the town centre at approximate co ordinates 52.4956°N 0.6389°W.

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, 1983 p 49)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.85
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/232: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424353
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WH
6. https://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/70987-meteor-accident-statistics-10.html#post3174177
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weldon,_Northamptonshire

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Jun-2008 12:58	JINX	Added
12-May-2015 17:35	BlB	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location]
10-Jan-2020 18:30	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
20-Apr-2020 00:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative]
07-May-2021 20:49	BlB	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]
13-May-2021 20:06	Vicktor	Updated [Location, Operator]