Date:	Saturday 14 August 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hunter F2
Owner/operator:	Armstrong-Whitworth Aircraft Ltd
Registration:	WN905
MSN:	S4/U/2913
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	East Langton, Market Harborough, Leicestershire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Test
Departure airport:	Baginton, Coventry [CVT/EGBE]
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Hawker Hunter F.Mk.2 WN905, Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd: Crashed 14/8/1954 on test flight prior to delivery. Lost part of the starboard undercarriage during high speed run, causing damage to the flaps and loss of hydraulic fluid. Aircraft crashed near East Langton, Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Pilot - Squadron Leader. M. Walton, Armstrong-Whitworth Aircraft Ltd., Test Pilot - put the aircraft into a spin and ejected at 8,000ft.

The first ever ejection from a Hawker Hunter: The pilot and the aircraft landed in adjacent fields.

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2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 80)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.82
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/225: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424346
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bitteswell#Aircraft_accidents
6. https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1954/1954%20-%202280.PDF
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WN
8. http://web.archive.org/web/20170421194230/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1954.htm
9. https://www.pprune.org/2529768-post5.html

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jan-2009 11:55	ASN archive	Added
03-Dec-2011 06:33	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn]
03-Dec-2011 06:36	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
03-Dec-2011 13:37	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
11-Sep-2013 03:09	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
08-Jan-2020 19:46	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Source, Narrative]
18-Apr-2020 20:53	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]