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Date: | Monday 7 January 1952 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Gloster Meteor NF Mk 11 |
Owner/operator: | 264 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WD653 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Meteor WD653: Written off 07/01/1952, Ran out of fuel at night when ventral tank would not feed, crew abandoned the aircraft near RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire, and both bailed out safely.
Crew:
F/Lt (142.282) L. MACKINNON(pilot) RAF - bailed out OK
F/O (579737) David Ernest George EVEREST (navigator) RAF - bailed out OK
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.123 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.210
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WD 5. 264 Squadron ORB (Operational Record Book)(Air Mininstry Form AM/f.540) for the period 1/12/1951 to 31/15/1955: National Archives (PRO Kew) file AIR 27/2672/2 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8426905 7.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/40134/supplement/1890/data.pdf 8.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38519/supplement/436/data.pdf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Jun-2008 01:46 |
JINX |
Added |
01-Feb-2013 13:07 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total occupants, Location] |
11-Nov-2014 13:02 |
Oezil 007 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Narrative] |
16-Apr-2020 16:17 |
Allach |
Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Narrative, Operator] |
20-Feb-2021 23:54 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
08-Aug-2022 05:40 |
Nepa |
Updated [Narrative, Operator] |