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Date: | Monday 23 February 1953 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 |
Owner/operator: | 1 BFTS RAF |
Registration: | WG406 |
MSN: | C1/0480 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1.5 miles SE of RAF Thame, Haddenham, Oxfordshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Thame, Haddenham, Oxfordshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:DHC-1 Chipmunk T10, WG406, 1 BFTS (Basic Flying Training School) RAF: delivered 25/9/1951. Written off 23/2/1953 when crashed in a flying accident one-and-a-half miles South-East of RAF Thame, Haddenham, Oxfordshire.
The pilot was carrying out a series of practice forced landings near Thame, Oxfordshire. The aircraft descended to a very low altitude, and the pilot allowed the aircraft to stall, at which point, it dived steeply into the ground. The pilot (flying solo) was killed
Crew of Chipmunk WG406:
Pilot Officer John Jeffrey CATLIN (pilot) RAF - killed in serivce 23/2/1953
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.141 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.343
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WG Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Jun-2008 02:38 |
JINX |
Added |
19-Nov-2018 18:43 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Phase, Nature, Narrative, Operator] |
14-Apr-2021 20:16 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
15-Apr-2021 15:43 |
Don Diego |
Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator] |