Danny's sad story......
According to OD's excellent book "Category 5" this accident happened on the 30th September 1969 and involved a solo JP3, XN575, being flown by a student on 3 FTS.
The summary said he was seen to get airborne in a high nose-up attitude and when at the upwind end of the runway at c. 100 feet the left wing dropped and it spun in. The pilot ejected at c. 50 ft but was fatally injured.
The cause was put down to over-rotation on take off leading to loss of control.....
Virtually the same happened ten years later when I was a stude at 1FTS at Linton. A Foreign & Commonwealth student (ISTR from Sudan?) over-rotated a JP3 (which was not over-endowed with thrust
) and the result was that being on the wrong side of the drag curve it didn't accelerate. The result was a crash off the end of the runway. The amazing thing was that the crash crews found no sign of the pilot. When he was eventually found he was in the officers' mess having legged from the scene of his crime totally un-injured. He denied having been even on the flying programme that morning, never mind having signed the F700! Mud on his boots and flying suit rather gave the game away.......
A similar accident happened to a Lockheed T33 (Shooting Star) on take-off from Duxford in the 1980's which nearly ended in tragedy, with a heroic gib (guy in the back - an engineer) rescuing the pilot from the blazing wreckage. So the flight safety lesson is clear - there is always value in reading about other peoples' misfortunes before history repeats itself this time with YOU!
MB