Date:	Wednesday 11 January 1956
Time:	night
Type:	Gloster Meteor NF Mk 11
Owner/operator:	All-Weather OCU RAF
Registration:	WS619
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near RAF North Luffenham, Rutland, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF North Luffenham, Rutland
Destination airport:	RAF North Luffenham, Rutland
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor NF.12 WS619: Delivered 5/6/53 to the RAF at 8 MU Little Rissington. To RAF Langar, Nottinghamshire for modifications. Then to 38 MU RAF Llandow 4/6/54. RAF Operational Career was with the AW OCU (All-Weather Operational Conversion Unit) at RAF North Luffenham, Rutland, only

Written off (destroyed) 10/1/56: Hit trees on a night approach to RAF North Luffenham, Rutland. Aircraft damaged beyond repair) and Struck Off Charge

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.177 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 92)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.141
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WS
5. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
6. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html
7. https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/20144

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Jan-2013 12:28	Dr. John Smith	Added
10-May-2015 17:12	Angel Dick one	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location]
26-Oct-2017 19:09	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]
08-Jun-2020 21:18	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
11-Jun-2020 20:24	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]