Date:	Monday 2 December 1957
Time:	day
Type:	Percival Provost T1
Owner/operator:	RAF Flying College
Registration:	WV552
MSN:	PAC/56/098
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Barkston Heath, Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Barkston Heath, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Barkston Heath, Lincolnshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Percival Provost T.Mk.1 WV552: delivered 28/01/1954. Operational service career was with 22 FTS (Flying Training School) and the RAF Flying College, Cranwell Lincolnshire as "D-W".

Written off (damaged beyond economic repair) 2/12/1957: Overturned during a forced landing into a field short of the runway at RAF Barkston Heath, Lincolnshire after the engine cut out. Pilot (flying solo) was killed.

Crew of Provost WV552:
Flight Cadet J.R. Owen (Pilot) RAF - killed on active service 2/12/1957

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.194 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 101)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.273
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
5. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1957
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WV

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
21-Apr-2012 14:58	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
27-Nov-2019 12:10	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]
14-Aug-2020 22:36	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative]
13-May-2021 20:10	Coumes	Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]