A wet and windy trip out to the hills with Sean Moran from https://peakwreckhunters.blogspot.com/ to visit sites around the Drewent Valley first is Meteor RA487 of 66 fighter squadron RAF Linton-on-Ouse which crashed during a night training flight on Hagg side in the Derwent valley December 8, 1950 .
The plane piloted by Sgt J. Harrington was flying a triangular route over cloud and had completed the first leg when trouble started unable to gain a fix on the ground the pilot discovered his radio was U/S unable to call for help the pilot attempted to put down on a long stretch of road but this proved impossible with no other option he elected to climb and bail out of the plane before his fuel ran out the pilot successfully left his plane and landed safely in a field his falling jet impacted the slope of Hagg side blasting a large crater , on returning to his base the pilot was given a talking to by the head of the parachute section as during his bail out he had lost his ripcord handle which very much annoyed the NCO!
In the
woods today there remains a noticeable crater with a few small remains
in the bottom not a lot as much of what was seen in photos looks to have
gone quite recently given the speed and total destruction of the plane
other bits will lie under the pine needles and moss
Pilot J.Harrington
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