During the morning of Monday, 9th March 1959 the pilot of this No.1 Flying Training School aircraft took off from Linton on Ouse airfield and flew toward Full Sutton airfield where he was due to carry out a flying exercise. He undertook the detail at Full Sutton and instead of returning to Linton on Ouse he was then seen heading fast and low toward Rotherham. The pilot and his family lived at the southern end of the long Herringthorpe Valley Road, Rotherham. The aircraft was later seen to be flying low in the vacinity of their home and had already made at least one pass of the area when the aircraft entered cloud. It narrowly missed the tower of Rawmarsh parish church, then dipped over houses in Westfield Road, Parkgate and dived into allotments alongside the single railway line of the South Yorks Chemical Works. The pilot was killed instantly and the aircraft disintergrated.

Two houses stood on the allotments, No.2 and No.4 Waggon Lane, Parkgate, and both were showered with debris. Part of the undercarriage became embedded in the chimney stack of No.2 where Mr and Mrs Horace Hammond lived. Mr George Harrison, at No.4, was demolishing an old air raid shelter on the allotment at the time of the crash and dived into what was left of it which he later claimed to have saved his life. The aircraft also severed high voltage power cable to New Stubbin Colliery. Waggon Lane appears to have been re-named Occupation Lane in later years.

Pilot - Midshipman Ian Ferguson Wilson RN, aged 19. Cremated Sheffield Crematorium. Ashes initially interred at crash site.