Dr Allen Hughes, originally from England, died in a light aircraft on Tuesday 27 November 2001, at Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Dr Hughes was leading a team that was intending to visit a rural area for purposes of service provision. All on board the light aircraft died. They were: Dr Hughes, the pilot, the team psychologist and a young woman doctor who had recently been accepted on to the training programme of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. Dr Hughes leaves behind his wife Vanessa, who is pregnant, and his family of origin.