On Wednesday, 26th April 1950 this No.203 Advanced Flying School aircraft was flown on a circuits and landings exercise at Carnaby airfield. During one of the landings the pilot overshot his approach at Carnaby and flew a circuit of the airfield. He then made a second landing approach but was too low as it crossed the Hull to Bridlington railway line toward the eastern end of the airfield site. A train was passing at the moment that would have seen him cross the line so the pilot attempted a steep turn to avoid the train. The aircraft then stalled and crashed fifty yeards from the line. Sadly the pilot was killed, he and his seat were thrown out during the crash and his body was located in a ditch some distance from the main site. Two boys were collecting bird eggs from a hedgerow at the time of the crash, they witnessed the last moments of the flight and the crash. Both Brian Robertshaw and David Bucktrout escaped injury. Newspaper reports do not state on which side the line the aircraft crashed however where the two boys lived in Bridlington was published in the newspaper and this would point to it being on the coastal side of the track.
Pilot - P.4 Donald Edwin Steven Newport RAF (3038413), aged 24. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.
Donald Newport's grave at Driffield Cemetery.