Date:	Friday 2 September 1955
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hunter F Mk I
Owner/operator:	229 OCU RAF
Registration:	WT655
MSN:	41H-665491
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1/2 mile west of RAF Chivenor, Devon -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Chivenor, Devon [EGDC]
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Hawker Hunter F.1 WT655: First flown 4/10/54, delivered to the RAF at 5 MU Kemble 24/11/54. Service career was with 229 OCU RAF Chivenor, Devon

Collided with Hawker Hunter WT689 (also of 229 OCU) half a mile west of RAF Chivenor, Devon. Pilot - Flight Lieutenant Albert Jan Hoogland (SAAF) (Service Number 501336) aged 26, of Pretoria, South Africa - ejected through canopy at 750 ft. However, this was too late and too low: he did not separate from seat, and was killed. He was later interred at Heanton Punchardon (St. Augustine) Churchyard in Devon.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.173 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 96)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.141
4. http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/project/year_pages/1955.htm
5. http://www.southafricawargraves.org/lists/saborder_h_i.htm
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WT

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jan-2009 11:55	ASN archive	Added
03-Dec-2011 15:16	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
03-Dec-2011 22:16	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Registration, Cn, Location, Narrative]
04-Dec-2018 09:16	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Nature, Narrative, Operator]
27-May-2020 15:24	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative]
28-May-2020 08:57	MIG21	Updated [Operator, Operator]