On 7th August 1957 this No.4 Flying Training School aircraft was flown on a training exercise with an instructor and a pupil pilot in the cockpit. They took off from Worksop airfield at around 07.50hrs with the instructor giving the pupil an introduction to high speed flight and also to making a controlled descent through cloud. Forty minutes after taking off either the instructor or the pupil began to make the controlled descent through cloud having first made radio contact with the ground controller. The aircraft made a banked turn while in a shallow descent and flew into high ground at Stanage Edge, toward the eastern side of the Peak District and a few miles west of Sheffield. Both airmen were killed in the crash that occurred on the Yorkshire side and literally metres from the Yorkshire / Derbyshire border. Other reasons for the crash were considered but it was thought most likely that the pilot had mis-read the altimeter so the aircraft simply was not high enough as it descended over high ground.
Pilot (Instructor) - F/O Philip Redvers Jones RAF (4091376), aged 23. Buried Great Ness Churchyard, Shropshire.
Pilot (Pupil) - F/O Derek John Brett RAF (4039420), aged 26. Buried Worskop Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.