From ADF Serials, and sounds like the accident to which
sheppey refers.
CA25-33, Crashed 06/61, Point Cook.
It was being flown by an Army cadet and an RAAF instructor. Apparently the engine failed soon after take-off and the pilots attempted to regain the airfield. However the aircraft stalled and crashed on the airfield. Sadly, the engine broke away, passing under the fuselage and rupturing the fuselage fuel tank which quickly caught fire and probably caused the deaths of the crew. New trainees were shown the gouges in the ground where the aircraft struck to remind us to try to land straight ahead in the event of engine failure on take-off and never to try to turn back to the airfield.
The last sentence tells me that it was what the crew did, not that it was a procedure endorsed by the RAAF, and on which crews were trained for on that particular type.