During the morning of 2nd February 1950 the pilot of this No.203 Advanced Flying School aircraft flew his first solo flight in a Meteor. During the afternoon he was tasked with flying a basic circuits and landings training exercise using Carnaby airfield. The aircraft appears to have been making landing approaches from the western side of the airfield and the pilot would then have flown a circuit of the airfield down the south side of the airfield to then turn and make an approach to land again. While flying a circuit of the airfield the pilot made a right hand turn at low height which took the aircraft very close to Burton Agnes railway station which would ordinarily have lined the pilot up for a landing. Unfortunately the turn made was too steep and it caused the aircraft to stall. With the starboard wing down it flew through trees near station and crashed into a field alongside Station Road. The aircraft broke up across the field and also across the back gardens of a row of council houses on the east side of Station Road. The houses received damage and all the gardens were destroyed. Only the rear fuselage of the aircraft was left intact. The pilot sadly lost his life while a civilian in a garden shed some 250 yards away sustained head injuries when struck by debris. The occupants of the houses all escaped injury by sheer luck.
Pilot - P.3 Colin John Walker RAF (2238689), aged 20. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.
Civilian - Mr Kenneth H Gratrix, aged 20. Injured.
The pilot's grave at Driffield Cemetery.