Date:	Friday 15 October 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	72 Sqn RAF
Registration:	WK679
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Church Fenton, North Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Church Fenton, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Church Fenton, North Yorkshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WK679, 72 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) 15/10/54 when crashed at RAF Church Fenton, North Yorkshire. Aircraft Inverted on approach, and dived into the ground during landing break. Pilot - Flying Officer Holland - killed

Wreckage taken to AIB at Croydon for accident investigation, and scrapped there upon completion of investigations.

Crew of Meteor WK679
Flying Officer W. Holland, RAF (Pilot, Service Number 2559873).

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.164 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.95
4. Meteor from the Cockpit: Britain's First Jet Fighter By Peter Caygill
5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/241: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424362
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK
7. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/40293/supplement/5640/data.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
18-Jun-2008 19:51	JINX	Added
15-Jan-2012 02:38	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source]
26-Jul-2014 10:31	angels one five	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Nature]
10-May-2015 17:50	Angel dot comma	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Nature, Destination airport]
10-Jan-2020 21:44	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
10-Jan-2020 22:22	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator]
24-Apr-2020 23:27	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]