Date:	Friday 14 June 1957
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	FC CS RAF
Registration:	WK981
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Location:	RAF Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Bovingdon, Herfordshire
Destination airport:	RAF Martlesham Heath, Suffolk
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WK981: Notified as awaiting collection 23/6/1953, delivered 9/7/1953. Operational Service career was with the FCCS (Fighter Command Communications Squadron) RAF

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 14/6/1957: Stalled on approach to RAF Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, and collided with a radar dish. Aircraft landed safely, but deemed "damaged beyond economic repair". Not repaired; struck off charge 1/8/1957 as Cat.5(c) at 58 MU RAF Sutton Bridge and reduced to spares and produce

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.190 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 71)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.252
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Martlesham_Heath#Postwar_RAF_Fighter_Command_use
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Jun-2008 18:36	JINX	Added
12-May-2015 07:48	yarbi	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport]
06-Aug-2020 20:41	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
07-Aug-2020 06:31	yarbi	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator]
07-Aug-2020 13:44	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
13-Jul-2023 11:28	Nepa	Updated [[Narrative]]