Unidentified aircraft at Nostell.
Apparently, on 24th June 1976 an aircraft struck an 11,000 volt power line at Nostell whilst crop spraying. Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee G-AZPB is quoted by others to have been the aircraft and this aircraft was registered to Miller Aerial Spraying (William Patrick Miller), of Woodhall Spa. I have my doubts as it this aircraft being the one damaged in a possibly incident at Nostell.
Pilot - Name unknown.
On 5th July 1976 a Piper Pawnee owned by Miller Aerial Spraying flew too low over a standing wheat crop whilst crop spraying near Bayons Manor, Tealby, Market Rasen and then crashed. The pilot, Mr Philip Jeffreys, escaped injury. I strongly suspect that this was Piper Pawnee G-AZPB. A newspaper report into that incident interviewed a company representative who stated that this was the second crash in several days involving their aircraft but that they kept a spare aircraft. This earlier incident involved their Grumman Ag-Cat G-BCXI that flew into an 11,000 volt power line at Thornton Curtis, near Barton on Humber on 29th June 1976 whilst flown by Mr Alan Price. This article makes no mention of any incident at Nostell that is also claimed to have involved a Miller Aerial Spraying aircraft. It would surely be too much of co-incidence and very careless for two of their aircraft to fly into 11,000 volt powerlines within five days.
That said, in one of their newsletters Yorkshire Air News stated that a Miller's Pawnee was crop spraying in the Knottingley area on 21st June 1976 so there could be some truth in this.