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Date: | Sunday 17 October 1954 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5 |
Owner/operator: | 501 (County of Gloucester) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WA330 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Quantock Hills, Holford Combe, Somerset -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Filton, Bristol, Gloucestershire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.Mk 5 WA330: Delivered 9/2/51. RAF Service was with 72 Squadron and 501 (County of Gloucester) Squadron
Written off (destroyed) 17/10/54: Dived into the ground on the Quantock Hills, near Holford Combe, Somerset, after control was lost while flying in cloud. The pilot was killed.
Crew of Vampire WA330:
Flying Officer Eric Stanley Barwick, RAF (pilot, Service Number 91390, aged 22) - killed on active service 17/10/54
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.164 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.84)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.95
4. Wings Over Somerset: Aircraft Crashes since the End of World War II By Peter Forrester
5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA 6.
https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/holford-combe-west-somerset 7.
https://www.quantockonline.co.uk/quantocks/villages/holford/holford1.html 8.
https://www.rauxaf.net/page130.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-May-2008 15:38 |
JINX |
Added |
08-Jun-2008 21:41 |
JINX |
Updated |
01-Jun-2013 09:11 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator] |
10-Jan-2020 11:14 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
24-Apr-2020 23:40 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |