Hunter T.7 XL594 near Carnaby.

On 16th April 1964 this 19 Squadron aircraft took off from Leconfield and was being flown in the Bridlington area at high altitude when the aircraft entered a high speed dive. The pilot appears to have partly regained control and resume level flight but at high speed it passed over the Carnaby. It narrowly missed the village church tower and farm roofs as it headed toward rising ground but fifty yards further on it crashed into a grass field. After the first impact it appears to have bounced through a hedge and exploded, with wreckage crossing three fields. Power cables to the local area were also damaged. The pilot had attempted to eject at the moment of impact and he was found with a partially opened parachute by the side of the Carnaby to Boynton / Rudston road but did not survive. Fires broke out across a long length of wreckage trail. One suggestion made at the time was that the pilot was undertaking a flying practice for a display over Carnaby airfield at the time of this incident.

Pilot - F/Lt Crawford MacGregor Cameron RAF (4185926), aged 26. Of Scotstoun, Glasgow. Burial location unknown.