Date:	Monday 5 November 1951
Time:	night
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk X
Owner/operator:	1 ANS RAF
Registration:	PG312
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Fronfelin Farm Old Hall, west of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Hullavington, Chippenham, Wiltshire (EGDV)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Wellington PG312 "FFK-F" of 1 ANS (Air Navigation School) RAF, based at Hullavington, Wiltshire. Written off 05.11.1951: After performing a training flight over Wales, the crew was approaching a local airbase when he was forced to divert to another one due to poor weather conditions at destination. While diverting, both engines failed at an altitude of approximately 500 feet, due to fuel exhaustion. The captain ordered his crew to abandon the aircraft and he attempted an emergency landing when the aircraft eventually crashed at Fronfelin Farm Old Hall, west of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire. All five crew bailed out, but only four survived; one was killed

Crew fatality:
S/Ldr (41737) Paul Michael Proctor (pilot) RAF - killed

Causes: It is reported that both engines stopped due to fuel exhaustion and that the amount of fuel on board was insufficient to cover all training programs. The subsequent RAF Board of Inqury judged that the fuel supply to the engines was cut due to the pilot's failure to turn on the nacelle fuel cocks, having assumed that the Air Signaller had already done this.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.121 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA000-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.192
4. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-619-wellington-x-llanidloes-1-killed
5. https://gw.geneanet.org/chrisprocter?lang=en&pz=benjamin+matthew&nz=procter&p=paul+michael&n=procter
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanidloes

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Sep-2008 01:00	ASN archive	Added
02-Sep-2013 01:49	JINX	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative]
08-Jan-2014 19:21	TB	Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Source, Narrative]
21-Apr-2017 22:47	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
21-Apr-2017 22:48	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type]
23-Nov-2018 20:35	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
13-Feb-2021 17:24	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
13-Feb-2021 20:55	Juza7	Updated [Operator, Narrative, Operator]
14-Feb-2021 00:14	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Narrative]
14-Feb-2021 08:57	Juza7	Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator]
16-Feb-2021 21:16	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]