On Tuesday, 21st December 1954 this 211 Advanced Flying School aircraft was flown on a cross country training exercise. The unit was based at Worksop and toward the latter stages of the flight the pilot let down through cloud over the area south of Rotherham prior to making a landing approach. It was seen to pass over Treeton once, make a turn, then stall and crash into the colliery waste heap. The aircraft broke up with the wreckage being spread over the waste heap and also in a reservoir, settling / slurry pond. The crash occurred around two hundred yards from the colliery pit shaft and despite the best efforts of a large number of colliery workers nothing could be done for the pilot.

In the (now vintage) Wreck Review No.36 magazine Tom Allonby gave a well researched account of this incident. He stated that some engine-related wreckage found in a colliery reservoir in 1967 and taken to Finningley airfield. Also, in 1976 the slurry pond was being dredged and cleared prior to a new drift mine being opened and further parts were uncovered. Using historic mapping, the spoil heap was to the north of the colliery site with the reservoirs between the heap and the mine site. In more rescent years a memorial plaque was erected near the crash site but was unfortunately stolen. A new one was placed in the area but that was also stolen in January 2023, then found two months later and was re-attached to the plinth. The local parish council have done their very best to preserve the memory of the incident and the young pilot with a path around the former waste tip, now a nature researve, being named the "Douglas Edwards Meteor Way" in honour of the pilot.

Pilot - P/O Douglas Gibson Edwards RAF (4083109), aged 22. Buried Worksop (Retford Road) Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.