On Tuesday, 11th January 1955 this 72 Squadron took off from Church Fenton airfield at 13.35hrs so that a more experienced pilot could carry out a flying check on a new squadron pilot which was to include an element of single engine flying. After taking off normally the aircraft climbed to 1,000 feet. The pilots received permission to make a single engined approach to land at Church Fenton followed by flying an overshoot on the one engine. Three minutes after taking off the aircraft was in the circuit of the airfield and flying on one engine, the pilot made a turn to begin to line the aircraft up with the runway to make an approach then lowered the undercarriage. When the undercarriage was lowered the nose and a wing dropped which then caused the aircraft to roll onto it's back. The pilot managed to partly regain control but the aircraft then appeared to stall, and with there being not enough height left to further recover the aircraft it then dived into the ground. The crash occurred near Lodge Farm, around a mile north of Biggin and both pilots were sadly killed in the crash. The possible loss of control was thought to have been caused because the dive brakes were left extended when the undercarriage was then lowered. Owing to the low flying speed of the aircraft a stall then occurred. Fuel may have been in a wing or ventral fuel tank on the side of the aircraft which had had the engine shut down which added to the weight on dead wing.

Pilot - F/Lt Malcolm John Woodyer RAF (57563), aged 29. Buried Hendon Cemetery, Middlesex.

Pilot - F/Lt Gordon Ewart Fisher RAF (4084670), aged 22. Cremated County Crematorium, Charing, Kent.