Meteor near Wombleton

The Meteor was one of two on an exercise over the airfield. For ten minutes the aircraft had both been diving down to practice attacking the airfield and whilst over a hanger on one attack, this aircraft banked to one side. The banking caused a wing to drop which clipped the building. The wing was torn off. The hanger was being used as a piggery, the pigs became drenched in fuel from the aircraft but is not thought that a fire occured in the hanger. I am told that the aircraft came to rest in a field near where the memorial has been erected after running across the Harome to Wombleton road. The pilot was killed.

Pilot - F/O Terence Alfred Smith RAF (4080170), aged 21, of Willesden, London. Buried St Mary's Cemetery, Harrow Rd, London (grave 1928). He was born on 22nd June 1933.

I have yet to visit the site. I would expect there to be some small remains in the ground although finding them is going to be very hard.