Meteor T.7 WH229 at Finningley airfield.

During the afternoon of Tuesday, 24th June 1952 this 215 Advanced Flying School undershot a landing at Finningley, it clipped the edge of a quarry that was on the border of the airfield, bounced across a road and came to rest on the airfield boundary. A fire destroyed the aircraft but the pilot appears to have escaped serious injury.

Pilot - Sgt A Blow RAF. Injured.

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