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Date: | Tuesday 19 January 1954 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 8 |
Owner/operator: | 226 OCU RAF |
Registration: | WH288 |
MSN: | AWA.5049 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea, 8 miles SSE of Southwold, Suffolk, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Stradishall, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor WH288: Delivered 31/12/51. RAF Service was with 226 OCU, RAF Stradishall, Suffolk (only). Written off (destroyed) 19/1/54: Dived into the North Sea, 8 miles South-South-East of Southwold, Suffolk, out of cloud during air to ground gun firing practice.
Crew:
P/O Peter Handley French (pilot) RAF : killed
The wreckage of the aircraft, and the body of the pilot, were apparently never found nor recovered. Meteor WH288 was struck off charge 26/1/54 as Cat.5(m) - "m" for missing.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.154 ISBN 0-85130-290-4
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 49)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.27
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WH Revision history:
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10-Jun-2008 14:52 |
JINX |
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12-May-2015 16:57 |
BlB |
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03-Apr-2020 23:41 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
04-Apr-2020 19:34 |
DG333 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator] |
13-Jun-2023 09:59 |
Nepa |
Updated [[Aircraft type, Operator, Operator]] |