A similar thing happened at Culdrose in the winter of 1970/71 when the Met 'tilly' being driven by a Wren one dark morning swerved around a tractor not realising that it was towing a Wessex 5. The subsequent collision removed the right oleo and the aircraft ended up on its side! Wrens did not come under the Naval Discipline Act in those days so she only got a telling off!!!