Javelin FAW.5 XA716 damaged in the air, landed at Leeming at airfield.
On 16th November 1960 Javelin XA716, of No.228 Operational Conversion Unit, flew past the control tower at Leeming airfield for an undercarriage check during a flight made on a dark night. The
altimeter was incorrectly set and aircraft struck a fifty foot hugh oak tree causing severe damage to the starboard wing. The aircraft went on to landed at Leeming with six feet of the tree
embedded in the wing.
Pilot - Name unknown.
Javelin XA716 was built to contract 6/ACFT/8336 by Armstrong Whitworth Ltd. at Coventry. The service history is missing several dates and the date it was taken on charge by No.228 Operational Conversion
Unit at Leeming is not known. Cat.3R damage resulted after the incident at Leeming on 16th November 1960 which would have seen a repair on site and this used the starboardd wing of Javelin XA706
which had been written off with a Cat.5 assessment made on 29th June 1960 at Leeming. It later went to 11 Squadron in 1962 who were based at Geilenkirchen, Germany. On 25th September 1963 it was struck off
charge and it was sold as scrap.