Date:	Wednesday 21 September 1955
Time:	night
Type:	Gloster Meteor NF Mk 12
Owner/operator:	AW OCU RAF
Registration:	WS621
MSN:	AWA.
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Church Broughton, Derbyshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF North Luffenham, Rutland
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor NF.Mk.12 WS621: Delivered 12/6/53. RAF service career was with 228 OCU and the AW OCU (All Weather Operation Conversion Unit) RAF

Written off (destroyed) 21/9/55: During a night interception exercise, Meteor NF.12 WS621 was acting as the target aircraft with another Meteor NF.12 of the AW OCU (WS683) acting as the chasing aircraft. Both aircraft collided over Church Broughton, Derbyshire, and both aircraft dived into the ground.

Both crews of both aircraft bailed out, but the pilot of Meteor NF.12 WS621 got his parachute tangled up with the empennage of his aircraft, failed to get free, was dragged down with the aircraft and was killed. The navigator of WS621 is not yet known, but the pilot was Pilot Officer Michael Aubrey Leslie Longman,(Service Number 4132050), aged 21. He had been promoted to the rank of Pilot Officer on 12/1/55

The reported crash location of Church Broughton is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, 13.7 miles (22.0 km) to the west of Derby, at approximate coordinates 52.900°N 1.694°W

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.174 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 92)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.157
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WS
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mid-air_collisions_and_incidents_in_the_United_Kingdom#1950s
6. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/40418/supplement/1244/data.pdf
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Broughton

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
29-May-2020 13:38	Dr. John Smith	Added
29-May-2020 15:36	MIG21	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Nature, Narrative, Operator]