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Date: | 13-SEP-1957 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Percival Provost T Mk 1 |
Owner/operator: | 3 FTS Royal Air Force (3 FTS RAF) |
Registration: | WW396 |
MSN: | PAC/56/225 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Location: | RAF Feltwell, Thetford, Norfolk, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Feltwell, Thetford, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | RAF Feltwell, Thetford, Norfolk |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Percival Provost T.Mk.1 WW396: Delivered 13/9/1954. Operational service career was with 3 FTS RAF Feltwell, Thetford, Norfolk, only
Written off (Damaged beyond repair) 13/9/1957 in a heavy landing in bad visibility at RAF Feltwell, Thetford, Norfolk. Airframe sustained "serious structural damage". Struck off charge as Cat.5(G/I). To Ground Instructional Airframe 7478M: not taken up as such. Reallocated to RAF Feltwell dump 30/10/1957, and scrapped.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.192 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 104)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.263
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm 5.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 6.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WW
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
21-Apr-2012 14:48 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
13-Mar-2019 11:38 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Nature] |
11-Aug-2020 13:04 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
11-Aug-2020 15:31 |
Yety |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator] |