Jet Provost T.3 XN575 at Leeming Bar.
On 30th September 1969 this No.3 Flying Training School aircraft climbed too steeply on take off from Leeming airfield, it then stalled and the pilot lost control. A wingtip hit the ground first in a small field on the village side of the airfield which caused it to cartwheel and the aircraft broke up. A worker at Leeming Bar Nurseries was one of the first on the scene and later gave an account of this incident to a journalist. While he heard the sound of the ejection seat firing as it struck the ground but this appears to have fired it clear from the aircraft but sent the pilot sideways, when bystanders arrived at the site they could do nothing for the pilot and he died a short time later.
Pilot - P/O Christopher Stanley Woolmer RAF (8025020), aged 24. Cremated City of London Crematorium, London (Manor Park).