On Friday, 16th May 1952 this No.14 Advanced Flying Training School aircraft was flown on a training flight in the general area of where it was based at Holme on Spalding Moor. Exactly what occurred in the air twenty minutes after take off is unclear but the pilot appears to have lost control while making turn but with possibly both engines already not running by this stage. A witness on the ground saw the aircraft at around 200 feet above the ground and in a dive, but it then levelled out at 150 feet above the ground and then the pilot baled out. Unfortunately the pilot opened his parachute too soon, though quite understandably quickly being so near the ground. The parachute caught on part of the aircraft and the pilot was first thrown against the outside of the aircraft and was then dragged along the ground when it crashed near New Common Farm, South Cave. One of the pilot's flying boots was found in the wreckage wedged between the control column and the pilot's seat. It was assumed that the pilot's foot had become jammed and that this had delayed his exit from the aircraft. When he did abandon the aircraft he opened his parachute too soon and it then caught up in the tail of the aircraft.
Pilot - Acting P/O George Anthony Alexander Jackson RAF (1517614), aged 19. Buried St.Johns Church, Wetherby Road, Roundhay, Leeds.
George Jackson was the only son of Harold and Kathleen Jackson. The family lived at Lowfields, Manor Park, Wetherby Road, Scarcroft, Leeds, Yorkshire. Newspaper reports state the funeral was at St.John's Church, Roundhay, Leeds.