On 22nd September 1942 this 4 Squadron aircraft took off from Clifton at around 11.00hrs so the crew could undertake aerobatic flying practice. Twenty minutes while the pilot was attempting to fly a loop the engine cut out and would not restart. He managed to put the aircraft into a gliding dive and twice attempted to restart it but was unable so selected a field to make a forced landing in. At 11.20hrs the pilot realised he was going to undershoot the field he selected and in attempting to pull back on the controls to reach his selected field the aircraft stalled, it then fell into a turnip field ajoining the more suitable field. The aircraft appears to have crashed near Providence Farm, Holtby and both occupants sustained injuries. An investigation found that water was in the fuel system and got got into the carburettor jets when the aircraft was inverted. A sketch map is contained in the casualty file for the crew and while very detailed it lacks a North point or any named features other than stating the aircraft crashed forty feet from the main (York to Stamford Bridge) road. If a map reference on a police report is correct then it crashed on land on the Holtby side of The Yews, not on the ancient ridge and furrow next to the farm but on land that now forms a much larger field now hedgerows have been removed.

Pilot - Sgt George Longbottom RAFVR (1129770). Injured.

Passenger - Sgt Eric Conway North RAFVR (1218660). Injured.