On 31st October 1997 the pilot of this Europa aircraft was intending on carrying out a cross country flight over the North Yorkshire Moors with the weather described as being slightly foggy. At 14.40hrs as the aircraft began its take-off it was probably not travelling as fast as it should perhaps have been for a normal take-off and as it reached the end of the airstrip a wing dropped and it hit a tall bush. The aircraft cartwheeled into the adjacent field where upon the wing was torn off. The aircraft eventually came to a halt with the engine also detached. The pilot sustained minor injuries and walked the mile to his home to report the incident. He thought that a stall had occured causing the wing to drop. The accident almost certainly occured on his land at Scencliffe Grange.

Pilot - Major Mark P Chetwynd-Talbot, of Coxwold, North Yorkshire. Slightly injured.