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Date: | 26-MAR-1954 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Percival Provost T Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 6 FTS Royal Air Force (6 FTS RAF) |
Registration: | WV500 |
MSN: | PAC/56/063 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Location: | RAF Tern Hill, Shropshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Tern Hill, Shropshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Percival Provost T.1 WV500: Delivered 11/11/53: RAF Service was with 6 FTS only. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 26.3.1954 when collided with Provost T.1 WV490 (also of 6 FTS) on overshoot from RAF Tern Hill, Shropshire. Pilots of both aircraft were killed.
Crew of Provost WV500
Pilot Officer John Rooper Walker RAF (pilot, aged 19)
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.155 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.46
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WV
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
06-Mar-2013 16:40 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
13-Dec-2018 18:54 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator] |
06-Apr-2020 23:03 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
07-Apr-2020 09:43 |
INV |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator] |
07-Apr-2020 16:12 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative] |
07-Apr-2020 20:57 |
INV |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |