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Date: | Tuesday 4 July 1950 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 |
Owner/operator: | 63 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | VT213 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.4 VT213, 63 Squadron, RAF: Delivered 2/7/1948. Written off (destroyed) 4-7-1950: The aircraft was on a QCH/GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) to RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, and the pilot was instructed to turn onto the inbound leg. Shortly afterwards, it crashed into a wood, and was destroyed. The reason that control was lost and/or the pilot descended below a safe altitude was not determined by the RAF Board of Inquiry. The pilot was killed.
Crew of Meteor VT213:
Pilot III Peter James STREET, RAF (pilot, aged 21) - killed on active service 4/7/1950
Note that one source (see link #4) gives the crash location as "Bodney, Norfolk". Bodney is a village near Thetford, Norfolk approximately 42 miles north east of Waterbeach.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.103 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.66
4.
http://www.bvror.uk/index.php/articles/post-ww2/76-pilot-ii-peter-james-street 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VT 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodney Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Dec-2020 19:45 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
27-Dec-2020 11:42 |
Dr.Roup |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |