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Date: | Sunday 17 April 1955 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5 |
Owner/operator: | 603 (City of Edinburgh) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WA432 |
MSN: | EEP42276 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Rushie Cleugh Gulley, Fennie Law, Gifford, East Lothian -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Turnhouse, Edinburgh, East Lothian |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk.5 WA432: Delivered 4/7/51. RAF Service career was with 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron, RAF only.
Written off (destroyed) 17/4/55: Destroyed in a CFIT (Controlled Flight Into Terrain) when flew into a hillside in cloud and conditions of poor visibility, while on a low-level navigation exercise at Rushie Cleugh Gulley, Fennie Law, Gifford, Lammermuir Hills, 10 miles south of Haddington, East Lothian. Pilot killed
Crew of Vampire WA432:
Flying Officer Samuel Milne RAF (pilot, aged 22, Service Number 2686168) - killed on active service 17/4/55
Substantial pieces of wreckage were still present at the crash site as recently as 5 May 2018 (see link #8). The continued presence of the wreckage is possibly due to the crash site being at the bottom of a difficult to access steep gulley, and the wreckage being heavily overgrown with bracken and weeds.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.170 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.10)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.128
4.
http://www.wtdwhd.co.uk/Duns4.html 5.
http://www.wtdwhd.co.uk/Bullhope%20Law.html 6.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA 7.
https://www.rauxaf.net/page156.html 8.
https://en-gb.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2095325477410034&set=p.2095325477410034&type=3&theater Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
29-May-2008 03:08 |
JINX |
Added |
08-Jun-2008 15:12 |
JINX |
Updated |
10-Jan-2012 14:24 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source] |
11-May-2020 20:04 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
11-May-2020 20:11 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
11-May-2020 20:20 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |