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Thanks Paul!
Posted by Andy Saunders on Mon Apr 21, 2003 03:17:36 PM
In reply top Re: Meteor IV VT185. No Photo.. But final sortie posted by Paul McMillan on Mon Apr 21, 2003 07:45:08 AM
Thanks a lot for the information on this incident, Paul. Andy
: was a special duty flight and the aircrfat was returning t
: o base
:
: Monday 24th April 1950
:
: Station Flight, RAF West Malling (Kent - 11 Group)
:
: Gloster Meteor F.4 VT 185 - took off from Martlesham Hearh
: , Suffolk at 10.30. Snowstorms, turbulent and icy weather
: were encountered over kent, the pilot after flying over We
: st malling at 200 feet diverting to Manston. Moments later
: at 10.45 VT185 dived into the ground at Moat Farm, Five O
: ak Green, 4 miles east of Tonbridge and disintegrated. It
: was thought extreme ice accretion had caused loss of contr
: ol.
:
: Full Name Rank, Awards and Age:
:
: Group Captain Henry Neville Gynes Ramsbottom-Isherwood DFC
: AFC, Order of Lenin (USSR) aged 44.
:
: Serial 29116
:
: Flying Hours: 3339 hrs (13 solo on Meteor)
:
: He was officer comanding West Malling, and died 3 months s
: hort of 20 years service.
:
: Source: For Your Tomorrow Vol 2 Fates 1943-1998,
: (Records of New Zealanders who have died while serving wit
: h RNZAF and Allied Air Services since 1915
: by Errol W. Martyn
: ISBN 0-473-06311-5