On the 8th of March 1949 this aircraft was being air tested with an instructor and a pupil pilot, 25 minutes after being in the air the aircraft was put into a diev and a loud bang was heard, after which the aircrafts controls ceased to respond. The instructor ordered his pilot to exit the aircraft and made his escape. Sadly the pupil was unable to get out in time and soon after the aircraft crashed in the centre of Huggate village, damaging the village school house and injuring the owner, a Mrs Gabriel Cass and her daughter Patricia. In press reports regarding the incident the aircraft was thought to have broken up in the air prior to impact with the ground. The main part of the aircraft landed close by on farmland and caught fire, this fire appears to have been the only one and houses nearby escaped. Pocklington, Drffield and Wetwang's fire engines were called to put out the fire. A propeller landed in the village church yard and reportedly cracked a gravestone in half.

Instructor Pilot - F/Lt Smailes RAF, ok.

Pupil Pilot - P.IV Michael Brenton Birks RAF (3046060), aged 20, of Saltburn, Yorkshire. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 1088).

Nothing appears to be visably damaged in the village today. The school appears to be long converted into a private dwelling.