At 02.00hrs on Tuesday, 17th June 1952 this 203 Advanced Flying School aircraft took off from Driffield airfield with the pilot briefed to undertake a night flying training exercise. Shortly after becoming airborne the pilot made a turn but lost height and flew into to the ground near Burn Butts Farm, a mile or so west of Hutton Cranswick. The aircraft initially flew into a fence, crossed a road then broke up over a clover field. The Iraqi pilot was sadly killed in the crash. It was thought that his inexperience flying using instruments was the reason for the accident occurring. The Iraqi Air Force operated mostly British aircraft in the 1950s and without knowing the entire history of early Iraqi jet fighter pilot training I would assume the RAF trained a number of Iraqi pilots prior to them returning to their home country to fly the aircraft.
Pilot - Capt Mohamed Abdul Rahim al-Ani. Iraqi Air Force. Aged 28. Buried location unknown.