Air base bans flying

Flying at Tern Hill has been suspended while RAF officials investigate a mid-air crash between two helicopters which left a pilot dead and another seriously injured. Flying at Tern Hill has been suspended while RAF officials investigate a mid-air crash between two helicopters which left a pilot dead and another seriously injured. RAF Shawbury chiefs have said they are unable to operate at Tern Hill in the normal way while a board of inquiry starts to collect evidence after Wednesday's crash between the Squirrel helicopters. Relief landing sites at Chetwynd, near Newport, and at Sleap Airfield, Wem, will be used while Tern Hill is out of action. The crash site close to Tern Hill Barracks, near Market Drayton, was still sealed off today. Read the full story in the Shropshire Star