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Date: | Wednesday 17 April 1957 |
Time: | |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 8 |
Owner/operator: | 65 (East India) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WL177 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Duxford, Cambridegshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WL177: Notified as awaiting collection 26/2/1954, delivered 2/3/1954. Operational service career was with 1 Squadron RAF Tangmere, 64 Squadron and 65 Squadron RAF Duxford as "F".
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 17/4/1957: Undercarriage collapsed on landing, swung off runway & DBR. According to one source (see link #5) the Meteor "failed to stop at the end of Runway 24 (eastern end), and carried on across Hunts Road before coming to a halt."
Struck off charge 30/5/1957 as Cat.5(c) and reduced to spares and produce at 58 MU RAF Sutton Bridge
Sources:
1. Hilley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.189 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 72)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.243
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm 5.
https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/111543-raf-duxford-meteor-incident-1950-s 6.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WL Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
19-Jun-2008 19:28 |
JINX |
Added |
27-May-2013 06:25 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport] |
03-Aug-2020 23:40 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
23-Jul-2021 20:40 |
Anon. |
Updated [Time, Location, Source, Operator] |