Date:	Monday 1 July 1957
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10
Owner/operator:	LAS RAF
Registration:	WP966
MSN:	C1/0828
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1/2 mile west of RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire (EGVP)
Destination airport:	RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire (EGVP)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 WP966: Delivered 3/2/1953. Operational Service career was with 227 OCU RAF and the LAS (Light aircraft School) at RAF Middle Wallop as "BD-B"

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 1/7/1957: Hit the ground half a mile west of RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire, after the engine cut during an overshoot and failed to pick up again. Aircraft wrecked in the consequent forced landing.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.190 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p.87)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.210
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
5. http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html
6. https://www.airphotographicinternational.com/products/wp966-bbd-de-havilland-canada-dhc1-chipmunk-t-10raf-jersey
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WP

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Nov-2011 10:56	Dr. John Smith	Added
29-Nov-2018 10:01	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]
07-Aug-2020 16:20	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
07-Aug-2020 16:22	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
15-Feb-2021 10:32	Xindel	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]