Halifax EB220 near Sessay.
During the afternoon of 18th November 1944 this 1664 Heavy Conversion Unit aircraft was to have been flown on a practing bombing training exercise and took off from Dishforth airfield at 15.50hrs. Unfortunately the crew failed to check the contents of some of the fuel tanks prior to taking off. The flight engineer selected that fuel be supplied from tanks that were nearly empty and once they ran dry both inner engines cut out. The crew did not realise what the problem was and could not maintain height on just two engines so a belly landing was made in a field around a mile south-west of Sessay near Clarkwood Farm.
Pilot - F/O R C King RCAF (J/18730).