Date:	Thursday 18 October 1951
Time:
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito NF Mk 36
Owner/operator:	264 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF
Registration:	RL230
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Crabtree Farm, Maunby near Pickhill, North Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Mosquito RL230: Took off for Training flight /cine-gun exercise. 18/10/1951
The aircraft was carrying out a cine-gun camera attack on another 264 Sqdn Mosquito. It approached the target aircraft very closely, and encountered severe slipstream turbulence as a result. The Mosquito went into a spiral dive after losing control, and the pilot could not recover the aircraft from the dive. Crashed at Crabtree Farm, Maunby near Pickhill.
Crew:
F/Lt (2600022) Michael Antony Furse WOODLEY (pilot) RAF - killed
F/O (4036278) Alan John Priestley HART (nav.) RAF - killed

1. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txt
2. ORB 264 Sqdn RAF
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings.
4. http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news
5. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
6. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8426905
7. http://undyingmemory.net/Culford-Roll-of-Honour/woodley-michael.html
8. https://www.militaryimages.net/media/alan-john-priestley-hart.102876/
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunby

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Feb-2014 13:52	Nepa	Added
28-May-2014 15:33	Nepa	Updated [Location, Departure airport]
22-Sep-2014 13:14	Erectus	Updated [Location, Narrative]
04-Jan-2015 12:21	Xindel	Updated [Total fatalities, Location, Nature, Source, Narrative]
23-Jul-2015 19:35	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type]
15-Mar-2019 19:06	Nepa	Updated [Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, Operator]
02-May-2019 19:40	Nepa	Updated [Location, Operator]
29-Jan-2021 17:00	Anon.	Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Operator]
12-Feb-2021 21:49	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative]
12-Feb-2021 21:49	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
12-Feb-2021 21:50	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
13-Feb-2021 20:47	Nepa	Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator]
22-Jun-2021 19:54	TB	Updated [Time, Source, Narrative, Operator]
26-Sep-2021 22:30	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator]
08-Aug-2022 07:13	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator]