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Date: | Thursday 14 January 1954 |
Time: | day |
Type: | North American AT-16 Harvard T Mk 2B |
Owner/operator: | 9 FTS RAF |
Registration: | KF243 |
MSN: | 14A-2044 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Toddington,12 miles NE of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Wellesbourne Mounford, Warwickshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Delivered September 1944 to 9 (P)AFU. Last user 9 FTS from November 1953. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 14 January 1954: Crash landed during aerobatics, at Toddington, Gloucestershire
The aircraft was engaged on an aerobatic training sorte from RAF Wellesbourne Mountford (near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire) when the engine lost power, and the aircraft was wrecked in a forced landing at Toddington, Gloucestershire.
Neither of the two crew - Flight Sergeant M.J.Nast (Instructor, aged 31) and Acting Pilot Officer J.L.Ryan (Pupil Pilot under training, aged 22) - were injured.
Toddington is a village and civil parish in north Gloucestershire in Tewkesbury Borough, located approximately 12 miles (20 km) north-east of Cheltenham
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. The Harvard File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 1988 p 116)
4. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.25
5.
https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toddington,_Gloucestershire Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Apr-2020 18:44 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
03-Apr-2020 14:05 |
Investig |
Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator] |
04-Apr-2020 21:27 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
05-Apr-2020 09:16 |
DG333 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator] |