During the afternoon of Wednesday, 8th March 1950 the pilot of this No.203 Advanced Flying School aircraft was to have carried out his first familiarisation flight with long range drop tanks. His instructor P.2 Willis gave evidence at his inquest stating that he had briefed the pilot on the various aspects of flying with drop tanks and then watched him take off from Driffield airfield. After going down the runway around 1200 yards the instructor then noticed that that fuel was escaping from the port tank. The pilot was unaware of the issue so took off and began a climbing turn to port. The instructor saw it reach around fifty feet above the ground, it then lost height and crashed. Unfortunately with one the wing drop tanks developing a major leak it also lost weight on one side of the aircraft caused the pilot to lose control. It then crashed inside the airfield boundary killing the pilot with the bulk of the wreckage coming to rest around 100 yards from the Driffield to Market Weighton road. The instructor P.2 Willis was killed in a Vampire crash at Kirkburn six months later.
Pilot - P4 Peter James Martin RAF (3110222), aged 20. Buried Odiham General Cemetery, Hampshire.