The very next day after the Pockley Moor crash, this training unit lost two more airmen. On the 9th of November 1946 all aircraft from this unit were briefed to fly above 200 feet on this day. The aircraft were undertaking a "local sector recce" when this aircraft The Mosquito Mk30 dived into the ground at a 90' angle after the pilot lost control in thick cloud cover whilst returning from navigation training. The aircraft was seen circling over the Hood Hill area at 700 feet, it then rose into cloud before reappearing and dived steeply into the ground. A reason was never found as to why the pilot was flying lower than told or as to the reasons for it crashing, although icing may have been suspected. Wreckage was spread over a wide area with the two pilots being thrown into the adjacent field, both airmen died of multiple injuries in the crash which happened at 10.50hrs.

Pilot - P/O Micheal J Smith-Pearse RAF, aged 20, of Andover, Hants, buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery.

Pilot U/T - P/O Phillip G Norton, aged 19, of West Hagley, buried West Hagley, Worcestershire.

The pilot's headstone.