On Tuesday, 10th April 1951 this 203 Advanced Flying School was flown on a training flight that included practicing aerobatics. The unit was based at Driffield but also had the use of Carnaby airfield as a relief landing ground and purely because of where this aircraft would eventually crash it may well be that they were using Carnaby to begin and end the flight. At least part of the training flight was held in the general area of the coast between Hornsea and Withernsea and involved the aircraft being deliberately put into spins. The exercise would have been to teach the pupil how to recover from the spins. Unfortunately during one of the spins control could not be recovered and once the aircraft got down to 2,000 feet the decision was made to abandon the aircraft. Newspaper reports quote witnesses who stated the aircraft was inverted by the time the two pilots left the aircraft. The aircraft crashed into a field between Turmar Farm and Grimston Garth, Grimston. The instructor landed a mile away in the parish churchyard at Hilston and presumably the pupil landed nearby. Both men then made their way back to the crash site.

Instructor - F/Lt John Stanley Owen RAF (55296). Landed in Hilston churchyard.

Pupil - Sgt J Wish RAF.