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Date: | Tuesday 22 January 1957 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5 |
Owner/operator: | 5 FTS RAF |
Registration: | WA231 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5 WA231: Delivered 10/10/1950: RAF service career was with 203 AFS (Advance Flying School), 102 FRS, the CGS (Central Gunnery School) at RAF Leconfield, and 5 FTS RAF Oakington. When with the CGS, WA231 was one of a number of Vampire FB.5s that appeared in the 1954 feature film "Conflict of Wings"
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 22/1/1957: Engine failed and hit trees in forced landing at RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire, being Destroyed By Fire. The pilot escaped uninjured.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.184 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 8)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.230
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm 5.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt 6.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA 8.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Conflict_of_Wings Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Mar-2008 00:08 |
JINX |
Added |
08-Jun-2008 21:34 |
JINX |
Updated |
05-Mar-2013 12:41 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
18-May-2015 18:08 |
MiG21 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location] |
17-Jul-2020 22:59 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
29-Jul-2020 17:48 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
11-Jul-2023 22:03 |
Nepa |
Updated |