Date:	Thursday 26 June 1952
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10
Owner/operator:	RAF College Cranwell
Registration:	WK571
MSN:	C1/0591
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Swineshead Bridge, 7 miles west of Boston, Lincolnshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincolnshire (EGYD)
Destination airport:	RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire (EGYD)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 WK571, RAF College Cramwell: delivered 18/3/1952,. Written off 26/06/1952 when crashed at Swineshead Bridge, seven miles west of Boston, Lincolnshire. During a practice forced landing, the throttle failed to respond when it was opened to initiate an overshoot, turning the practice forced landing into a real one!

The Chipmunk therefore overshoot the field selected for the (real) forced landing, and ran on into a dyke. Although the aircraft was wrecked (damaged beyond repair), the crew were uninjured.

The reported crash location of Swineshead Bridge is a district of Swineshead is a village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, approximately 7 miles (11 km) west of the town of Boston, at approximate co ordinates 52.941292°N 0.156047°W. The parish includes the areas of Swineshead Bridge and North End to the north, Fenhouses and Blackjack to the east, and Drayton to the south.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.130 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 262
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK
5. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1952
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swineshead,_Lincolnshire

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
18-Jun-2008 13:23	JINX	Added
15-Nov-2011 09:06	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source]
13-Mar-2021 16:52	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
13-Mar-2021 16:53	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
17-Mar-2021 21:18	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Destination airport, Operator]