Date:	Friday 26 March 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Percival Provost T Mk I
Owner/operator:	6 FTS RAF
Registration:	WV490
MSN:	PAC/56/063
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
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 WV490: Delivered 24/10/53: RAF Service was with 6 FTS only. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 26.3.1954 when collided with Provost T.1 WV500 (also of 6 FTS) on overshoot from RAF Tern Hill, Shropshire. Pilots of both aircraft were killed.

Crew of Provost WV490
Pilot Officer Herbert Edgar Quirke, RAF (pilot, aged 23)

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 ..

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Mar-2013 16:37	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
13-Dec-2018 18:53	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator]
07-Apr-2020 16:17	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
07-Apr-2020 20:56	INV	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator]
08-Apr-2020 15:43	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Source]
08-Apr-2020 21:27	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Total occupants, Source]