During the afternoon of the pilot's twenty second birthday, Thursday, 17th August 1950 this No.203 Advanced Flying School aircraft was flown with one engine deliberately shut down and the pilot was practicing single engine overshoots and landings at Carnaby airfield. Carnaby had just one very long runway running roughly east to west which appears to have been the direction the aircraft was flown for the landings. Following one of the landing approaches, the pilot pulled up and successfully overshot. He began a turn to the right which would have then taken the aircraft north of the airfield to fly around and make a circuit of the airfield to then make another landing approach at the east end. Unfortunately as he turned around to the north of the airfield the nose dropped, it dived into a turnip field, passed through a hedge into a cornfield and caught fire around a mile north of the airfield. The pilot was killed. It later transpired that the dive brakes had been left extended and contributed to the pilot losing control.
Pilot - P.4 Peter Brian Punter RAF (579975), aged 22. Buried General Cemetery, Luton, Bedfordshire.