Date:	Wednesday 30 August 1961
Time:	night
Type:	Hunting Jet Provost T Mk 3
Owner/operator:	CFS RAF
Registration:	XM423
MSN:	PAC/W/9230
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Harvington, 3 miles NE of Evesham, Worcestershire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Jet Provost T.Mk.3 XM423: Delivered 22-3-1960. Became "R-J" of the CFS (Central Flying School) RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire.

Written off (destroyed) 30/8/1961: Engine failure on a night navigation exercise, struck high voltage cables at night, crashed and burst into flames at Harvington, near Evesham, Worcestershire. The crew - Pilot Officer J. Armstrong and Flight Lieutenant I. K. McKee - ejected safely. Struck Off Charge 31/10/1961 as Cat. 5(Scrap).

Note that the official file on the accident at the National Archives at Kew (File AVIA 5/40/S3015 - see link #2) gives the crash location as "near Little Rissington" [sic] which is where XN423 took off from, and not where it came down!

Harvington is a village near Evesham in Worcestershire, England. Bounded by the River Avon to the south and the Lench Hills to the north, three miles northeast of Evesham and now on the Worcestershire/Warwickshire border.

1. RAF Little Rissington: The Central Flying School 1946-76 p. 122 By R. Deacon, A. Pollock, M. Thomas, R. Bagshaw
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/40/S3015: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578795
3. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1961.htm
4. http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1950-88.htm
5. http://web.archive.org/web/20170421194406/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1961.htm
6. http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=635
7. XM423 at SBAC Air Show, Farnborough September 1960: https://www.na3t.org/air/photo/LA01178-1
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvington

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Nov-2011 14:53	Dr. John Smith	Added
20-Nov-2018 15:44	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator]
02-Dec-2020 22:58	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
03-Dec-2020 17:40	Jixon	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator]