On 5th July 1917 this No.36 Training Squadron, Royal Flying Corps aeroplane was being flown on a flight to test the wireless equipment when the aircraft suffered structural failure while flying over the general Beverley area. The aeroplane had got itself in an abnormal position and while the pilot was making a violent correction the lower wings broken away, it then crashed and the pilot was killed. The pilot was buried locally to where the unit was based at Beverley rather than being claimed by his next of kin for burial under their arrangements. At the pilot's inquest it was said that a "Special Accidents Committee" from London would investigate the cause of the accident.
Pilot - 2Lt Kenneth Jesson Vick RFC, aged 28. Buried Beverley (St.Mary) Church Cemetery, East Yorkshire.
Kenneth Vick was born in Loughborough in 1889 and was the son of Rev. Charles William and Agnes Mabel Vick, of 175 Chevening Road, Brondesbury, London. He enlisted in Queen Victoria's Rifles in August 1914 and served in France from November 1914. His name is commemorated on a plaque in Bishop Burton church, East Yorkshire for a number of Royal Flying Corp deaths that occurred while based at Beverley.