This prang occurred on the airfield after a heavy snow fall, some time during the winter of 55/56, involving the station's Mosquito T.III (VP351), when its port undercarriage hit a bank of snow at the side of the runway and collapsed.

"I remember that we had difficulty getting it off the runway due to the snow and it being so cold that the hydraulic oil in the trackjacks was virtually unpumpable and it took a long time to raise it."   

Robin Burton