In the late afternoon of 5th December 1942 the pilot of this aircraft had taken off from Stradishall airfield to return to Newton airfield as part of a local flying training exercise. The aircraft flew into poor weather and the pilot became lost when it became dark with the aircraft eventually running out of fuel in the Hull area. It was thought that he was attempting to make a forced landing in the Hull area but it was possible that the aircraft had first struck a barrage balloon cable before it crashed into the back of two houses on Wold Road, Hull. Fortunately there were no civilian casualities. Mr and Mrs Hogarth were the occupants of one of the houses but were at a local cinema at the time of the crash and did not know of the incident until they returned home later. Mr and Mrs Broadley who lived in the other house were also not at home at the time as they were visiting family but their four children were at home, they were led out by their eldest child, eleven year old Ronald Edward Broadley. Part of this house caught fire but was soon put out by fire wardens. This fire was thought to have happened after embers from a house fire had been knocked out into the room rather than from fuel from the aircraft catching fire. Witnesses are recorded as stating that they did not hear the aircraft before it crashed which would suggest that the engines had cut out through lack of fuel which would explain why there was not a larger fire after the crash. The investigation into the crash considered that there was not enough daylight left to complete the flight and that the pilot should not have taken off.

Pilot - Sgt Jan Josef Minge PAF (P/792685), aged 22. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Jan Minge was born on 19th February 1919. The RAF's Form AM1180 gives his flying hours as being a huge 8300 hours with 154 hours flying the Oxford type, he was however not experienced in flying at night with just seven hours flying to his name with all of these on the Oxford type. Nothing more is currently known about him.