I can't add much to what has been said about the photo but I did see the Lightning crash. At the time I was a 14 year old pupil at Hatfield Tech Grammar school ( now the University of Hertfordshire) and we were in our weekly Thursday afternoon Art lesson. I vaguely recall seeing a flash which caught my eye - could have been sunlight, the engine fire or the ejection ? - followed by a pall of smoke from behind the trees at the airfield, which was about 1 1/4 miles away. We went past the crash site on the way home to St.Albans later but there wasn't much left to see.
The market garden greenhouses were in the runway 06 undershoot and I also think I saw the tail of something sticking up out of them at another time, the aircraft having run off the end of runway 24. It must have been between late 1959 & November 1964, when I left school. It may have been a Buccaneer -can anyone confirm or deny ?