On Tuesday, 21st April 1953 this 215 Advanced Flying School aircraft lost the leading edge of the starboard wing on take off frrom Finningley airfield. This was one of a number of similar incidents around this period in history where a large section of Meteor wing leading edge skinning between the fuselage and engine nacelle came off in flight. Controlling the aircraft would have been difficult as there was an out-of-balance condition on the airframe without this panel. The pilot attempted to make a wheels-up landing north east of Finningley airfield. Two ladies were working in the field he had initially selected to make his forced landing but they were wearing white scarves which the pilot noticed at the last minute so that he was able to lift the aircraft clear of them. He put it down in the ajoining field at the side of the Doncaster to Westwoodside road. The aircraft either bounced over a six feet wide dyke or stopped with it's nose in the dyke. The pilot was slightly injured. The landing was probably very close to the Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire border, between the villages of Blaxton (in Yorkshire) and Westwoodside (in Lincolnshire). A little bit of Nottinghamshire covers an area of this road. The damage cannot have been that severe as the aircraft was not written off as a result of this incident.
Pilot - F/Lt R C Norris (possibly F/lt Ronald Charles Norris RAF (186937)).