Accident description
Last updated: 18 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 12 APR 1951 |
| Type: | Handley Page Hastings C.1 |
| Operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | TG552 |
| C/n / msn: | HP67/43 |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Negombo RAF Station (Sri Lanka) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Negombo RAF Station, Sri Lanka |
The Hastings transport plane crashed on landing. It went off the left side of the runway and ground looped 180 degrees.
Sources:
» 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.
