Date:	Tuesday 30 April 1957
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hunter F Mk 6
Owner/operator:	111 (Treble One) Sqn RAF
Registration:	XG203
MSN:	41H-680027
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF North Weald, Essex -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF North Weald, Essex
Destination airport:	RAF North Weald, Essex
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Hawker Hunter F.Mk.6 XG203: Built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd., Dunsfold, Surrey. First flown 18/9/1956. Delivered to the RAF at 5 MU Kemble 17/10/1956. Operational service career was with 43 Squadron RAF Leuchars, then 111 Squadron RAF North Weald as "R"

Written off (destroyed) 30/4/1957: Overshot the runway on landing at North Weald, Essex. It then bounced, broke up and exploded after the nose wheel collapsed, with the entire nose section breaking away. The aircraft "broke its back" just aft of the cockpit. The explosion activated the ejector seat and blew the pilot (Flying Officer Mike Thurley) clear. He suffered only slight back injuries

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.189 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.241
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
5. http://web.archive.org/web/20170421194235/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1957.htm#apr
6. http://nwamuseum.co.uk/IncidentsWestEssexto2000-1.pdf
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XG
8. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jan-2009 11:55	ASN archive	Added
14-Mar-2012 10:20	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Destination airport, Narrative]
20-Mar-2012 09:10	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
16-Aug-2012 08:37	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location]
04-Aug-2013 13:24	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Narrative]
06-Sep-2017 13:42	Aerossurance	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport]
14-Jan-2020 22:03	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator]
04-Aug-2020 00:17	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
04-Aug-2020 12:32	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]