Date:	Saturday 5 November 1949
Time:	night
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk X
Owner/operator:	2 ANS RAF
Registration:	NA827
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Grange Farm, Meltonby, nr Pocklington, North Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Middleton St. George, Co. Durham
Destination airport:	RAF Middleton St. George
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Vickers Wellington NA827 (Air Navigation School): Written off (damaged beyond repair) 5 November 1949 when crashed near Pocklington, North Yorkshire.

The Wellington had been airborne for over seven hours on a night navigation exercise, stating and ending at RAF Middleton St. George, near Darlington, County Durham. The Iraqi Student Navigator was not being supervised properly by the crew, nor did the pilot co-ordinate the crew activities satisfactorily. The crew was lost (uncertain of their location) and the bailed out when the aircraft began to run out of fuel. All on board bailed out successfully, although one of the crew - 755390 Master Signaller Norman Alister (Jock) Cameron - was injured on landing.

However, according to a biography of Norman Alister (Jock) Cameron (see link #3): "Not only was he a member of the Goldfish club, but he also earned a place in the Caterpillar Club. This was as a result of, when training Iraqis in 1949, his baling out of a Wellington, NA827 a Mark X, on Bonfire night, after it was struck by lightning and caught fire".

A contemporary newspaper report (Hull Daily Mail 6 November 1949 - see link #9) lists the crew as:

Flight Lt L J Otley (pilot)
Major Mohammed (Royal Iraqi Air Force, Navigator Under Training)
Master Signaller Norman Alister (Jock) Cameron (Navigator/Signaller)
R. Clarke (Navigator)

1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.53. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings by Colin Cummings p 550
3. “W/Op on a Wing and a Prayer” - the RAF exploits of 755392 M/S Norman (Jock) Cameron
4. Hull Daily Mail - Saturday 05 November 1949
5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/29/W2464: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578310
6. http://www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk/Information/Articles/Heroes/Jock%20Cameron.pdf
7. https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/16534/Cameron-Norman-Jock.htm
8. https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/34/a8936634.shtml
9. https://pocklingtonhistory.com/history/20thcentury/pocklingtoninww2/crashes/meltonbycrash/index.php

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Dec-2019 16:39	Dr. John Smith	Added
06-Dec-2019 16:39	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
06-Dec-2019 16:50	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Total occupants, Location, Source, Narrative]
06-Dec-2019 16:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
06-Dec-2019 16:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
08-Dec-2019 17:35	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator]