During the morning of Monday, 20th September 1954 this No.8 Flying Training School aircraft was being flown on a training flight at high altitude when one of the engines had failed. He then descended from 40,000 feet and made it down to reasonably low level required to make an approach to land back at Driffield airfield but did not inform flying control that he had lost an engine until the aircraft was downwind of the airfield. Unfortunately, having to fly into the wind with one engine not working this saw his flying speed decrease. When he lowered the undercarriage and with the dive brakes extended the aircraft then stalled, it rolled over one and a half times before crashing inverted around a mile east of Driffield railway station at 09.16hrs. The aircraft clipped trees just before crashing in a field close to the Driffield to Bridlington railway line. The pilot was killed. Five railway workers were cutting grass alongside the railway and narrowly missed being hit by the aircraft. It also had narrowly missed striking the railway gatehouse at Farthing Lane.

Pilot - P/O William Frederick Douglas RAF (2607894), aged 23. Buried St.Andrews Cemetery, Fife.