Proctor IV G-AKLC near Tong Park, Baildon.
During the afternoon of 19th August 1949 this aircraft was being flown on some form of test flight in the area around Yeadon airfield. The reason for the test flight is not clear but on board were an aeroplane engineer and another airfield employee alongside the pilot and a young passenger who has possibly gone up for a ride. After a twenty minute flight it passed over Esholt Woods a wing came off the aircraft and fell near Hollin Hill. The aircraft then began to break up in the air crashed into and around a cornfield near Ghyll Beck Farm, close to the foot of Hollins Hill road at Tong Park. Sadly all four men in the aircraft were killed as a result of this accident. The aircraft was owned by Lancashire Aircraft Corporation Ltd., registered as being based at Hillcrest, Yeadon, Leeds and the company used Yeadon as their base for flying.
Pilot - First Officer Valois Marcial Ramiro Garcia-Salas, aged 31. Burial location unknown.
Passenger / Engineer - Mr Rowland Ransome, aged 26. Buried Garforth Cemetery, Yorkshire (B.158).
Passenger / Airfield labourer - Mr Clarence Allsop, aged 33. Burial location unknown.
Passenger - Mr Peter Derek Hardman, aged 18. Buried Liverpool Road Cemetery, Birkdale, Merseyside (C2-1).
The pilot was born in Brazil but had been in the UK for some years. He married in Aberdeen in the early 1940s. he was employed by the Lancashire Aircraft Corp Ltd as their pilot. Mr Ransome was also employed by the same company. His wife lived in Garforth which his parents were from South Milford. Mr Allsop was living in Horsforth but was originally from Darlington, Durham. Mr Hardman was still a student at Oundle School, Northants, he was the son of a director of the Lancs Aircraft Corp Ltd who also owned a radio buisness. His son appears to have been learning to fly at the time of his death.