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Date: | Friday 5 December 1958 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T Mk 11 |
Owner/operator: | 5 FTS RAF |
Registration: | WZ520 |
MSN: | 15107 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Railway Line near RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Written off (damaged beyond repair) 5/12/58: Swung during take off from RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire. It then bounced over a railway embankment after the undercarriage was raised to facilitate an emergency stop. According to a contemporary newspaper report ("Cambridge Daily News" 5 December 1958):
"Two airmen from Oakington airfield had miraculous escapes when their Vampire jet trainer crashed on the main railway line bordering the airfield and skidded 200 yards across a ploughed field. The plane had taken off from the main runway when its engine failed. It rapidly lost height and at 100 mph hit the main ‘down’ Cambridge-Huntingdon railway line, shedding its undercarriage before knocking down fences and coming to rest. Both lines were blocked for half an hour but workmen soon had the damage repaired."
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.198 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 109)
3.
http://www.ldhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Oakington-Scrapbook-1897-to-1990.pdf 4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WZ 5.
http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/dh115.pdf 6.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1958.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Mar-2013 11:09 |
Dr. John Smith |
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06-Mar-2013 09:26 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
07-Dec-2018 13:32 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Narrative, Operator] |
10-Jan-2020 18:58 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Operator] |
25-Jan-2020 21:02 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
26-Jan-2020 16:41 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
11-Jul-2023 22:04 |
Nepa |
Updated [[Operator, Operator]] |