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Date: | Monday 28 August 1950 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 |
Owner/operator: | 63 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | VT198 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.4 VT198, 63 Squadron, RAF: Delivered 2-7-1948. Written off (destroyed) 28-8-1950: The pilot was making an approach to RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire in adverse weather conditions (some sources state that the weather was thundery). Having already missed his first approach, due too being poorly positioned, the pilot attempted to make a second approach. On the turn to make the second approach, the pilot allowed the airspeed to decay, and the aircraft stalled and dived into the ground. The pilot was killed
Crew of Meteor VT198:
Flying Officer Robert Peter Benfield, RAF (pilot, Service Number 3011963, aged 24) - killed on active service 28-8-1950
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.105 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.78
4.
http://www.bvror.uk/index.php/articles/post-ww2/77-flying-officer-robert-peter-benfield 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VT 6. 63 Squadron ORB (Operational Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for 1-10-1948 to 31-12-1950: National Archives (*PRO Kew) File AIR 27/2427/36 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8420251 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
29-Dec-2020 17:26 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
29-Dec-2020 21:04 |
INV |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |