Accident description
Last updated: 21 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 20 DEC 1950 |
| Type: | Handley Page Hastings C.1 |
| Operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | TG574 |
| C/n / msn: | HP67/65 |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 27 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 34 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Benghazi-Benina International Airport (BEN) (Libya)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | El Adem RAF Station, Libya |
| Tripoli International Airport (TIP/HLLT), Libya |
Whilst flying over the Mediterranean Sea at about 8500 feet a propeller blade separated from nr. 2 engine. The propeller blade sliced into the fuselage, severing several control cables and killing the co-pilot who was in the crew quarters at that moment. Subsequently the engine detached from its bearers and fell away into the sea. The pilot diverted to Benina. On finals it contacted a hump of rocks and sand, causing the aircraft to flip over on to its back.
Sources:
» Broken Wings : Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents / James J. Halley
» Hastings Bangs and Prangs and Splashes and Crashes
» Last take-off : a record of RAF aircraft losses 1950 to 1953 / C. Cummings
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
