Meteor WK936 near Wombleton airfield.
The pilot of this aircraft was flying one of two aircraft on an exercise over the former Wombleton airfield.
For ten minutes these aircraft had both been diving down to practice attacking the airfield and whilst over a
hanger on one of these attacks this aircraft banked to one side. The banking caused a wing to drop which, as
the aircraft was at a low height it clipped the building and a wing was torn off the aircraft. The hanger was
being used as a piggery at the time and the pigs became drenched in fuel from the aircraft but is not thought
that a fire occured in the hanger. The aircraft continued briefly but crashed near to where the RCAF memorial
was later erected on the Harome to Wombleton road. The pilot was sadly killed in the accident.
Pilot - F/O Terence A Smith RAF (4080170), aged 21, of Willesden, London. Buried St Mary's Cemetery, Harrow Rd, London (grave 1928).
Terence Smith was born on 22nd June 1933. He received his commission on 27th February 1952 to the rank of Acting P/O on probation and placed on
the active list for four years and four years in the reserve, this period of service was to count from 26th September 1951. He was graded as P/O on
28th November 1952 and rose to F/O on 26th December 1953.