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Date: | Tuesday 1 May 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Hawker Hunter F4 |
Owner/operator: | 54 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | XE671 |
MSN: | HABL003014 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Crondall, 2 miles East of RAF Odiham, Basingstoke, Hampshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Odiham, Basingstoke, Hampshire (ODH/EGVO) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Hawker Hunter F.Mk.4 XE671: Built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd at Blackpool, and delivered to the RAF at 33 MU Lyneham 6/6/55. Issued to 54 Squadron at RAF Odiham coded "K" in July 1955
Written off 1/5/1956: crashed due to engine failure, near Crondall, 2 miles east of RAF Odiham, near Basingstoke, Hampshire. Pilot - Flying Officer T. J. D. Price (Service Number 3516781) - ejected safely
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.180 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p.24)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.193
4. 54 Squadron ORB (Operations REcord Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/56 to 31/12/60: File AIR 27/2787 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2505425 5.
http://web.archive.org/web/20170723045955/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1956.htm 6.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm 7.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 8.
http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html 9.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XE Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Jan-2009 11:55 |
ASN archive |
Added |
04-Dec-2011 16:51 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
31-Jan-2012 01:00 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport] |
17-Mar-2013 02:33 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Narrative] |
15-Jun-2020 20:36 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |