Date:	Tuesday 4 May 1954
Time:
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10
Owner/operator:	RAF College
Registration:	WK568
MSN:	C1/0587
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Punchbowl Lane, 2 miles NW of Boston, Lincolnshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire (EGYD)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
On 04/05/1954 Chipmunk T.10 WK 568 stalled while low flying, and dived into the ground 2 miles north-west of Boston, Lincolnshire, killing the pilot, who was flying solo training flight from Cranwell. Per a report in the "Boston Standard" "60 Years Ago" column (7 May 2014):

"...a 19-year-old RAF Cranwell Cadet died after the aircraft he was flying solo in crashed into a field off Punchbowl Lane in Boston. The cadet, from London, was piloting a single engined Chipmunk Trainer aircraft when it came down in a field of peas and caught fire"

Crew of Chipmunk WK568
Flight Cadet Anthony Victor Bennett (pilot, aged 19)

Struck Off Charge 01/06/1954 as CAT 5(scrap) at 54 MU RAF Hucknall, Nottinghamshire

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.158 ISBN 0-85130-290-4
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain 1983 p.68)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.56
4. Boston Standard 7/5/2014: http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/local/archives
5. http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=343
6. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
18-Jun-2008 13:21	JINX	Added
07-May-2014 19:38	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
08-Apr-2020 23:30	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]