Date:	21-JUN-1954
Time:	day
Type:	Percival Provost T Mk I
Owner/operator:	22 Flying Training School Royal Air Force (22 FTS RAF)
Registration:	WV561
MSN:	PAC/56/107
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	Thorpe-on-the-hill, 6 miles SW of Lincoln, Lincolnshire. -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Percival Provost T.Mk.1 WV561: Delivered 12/2/54. Sole RAF service (just over four months) was with 22 FTS, RAF

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 21/6/54: dived into the ground at Thorpe-on-the-hill, six miles south-west of Lincoln, Lincolnshire during an instrument rating training flight. The aircraft was seen to fly below cloud at an altitude of approximately 900 feet in a semi-circular path. It then dived into the ground at high speed for reasons that could not be determined. Both crew killed

Crew of Provost WV561:
Flying Officer Raymond Henry Carter RAF (Instructor Pilot, aged 33)
Acting Sub Lieutenant Matthew Alexander Hutchinson RN (Pupil Pilot under Instruction, aged 24)

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.160 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 102)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.66
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/216: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424337
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WV
6. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1954
7. https://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1954.htm
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorpe_on_the_Hill,_Lincolnshire
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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Mar-2013 17:01	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
17-Dec-2018 07:19	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator]
08-Jan-2020 22:11	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
08-Jan-2020 22:48	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Operator]
13-Apr-2020 00:04	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
13-Apr-2020 08:50	Investig	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator]
15-Apr-2020 20:09	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]