Chipmunk T. Mk.10 WD326 of No.19 Reserve Flying School (Manchester and Liverpool UAS) crashed near Malham on the 27th June 1953

 

Kenneth Barnard Vallance	Flying Officer	Pilot	Killed
Frank Reddish	Pilot Officer	Co-pilot	Killed

 

The two crew had taken the aircraft out on a training flight from Woodvale.  F/O Vallance, who was a lecturer in botany at Liverpool University, had planned to fly to the Malham area as a group ecology students from Liverpool were carrying out a plant survey in the area, it was his intention to carry out aerobatics once in the right area.  The aircraft made its first pass over the group and performed a roll it was then seen to approach a second time at lower altitude again performing a roll.  Throughout this the aircraft lost height and while very close to the ground it appeared to two crew had lost control the aircraft impacted the ground while inverted and cart wheeled to a halt and burst into flames, though the fire quickly went out.

It is not known which pilot was actually in control of the aircraft though it is known that F/O Vallance was in the rear cockpit.