Date: | Tuesday 16 September 1952 |
Time: | |
Type: | Handley Page Hastings C.2 |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | WD492 |
MSN: | HP67/120 |
Year of manufacture: | 1951 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 12 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 1,6 km S of Northice Camp -
Greenland
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Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Thule Air Base (THU/BGTL) |
Destination airport: | Thule Air Base (THU/BGTL) |
Narrative:The Hastings was dropping supplies near a scientific camp in Northern Greenland. After twelve successful paradrops, the aircraft positioned for free drops from a height of just 50 feet. The first drop was uneventful, but during the second drop, at a speed of 125 kts, the aircraft entered a white-out condition and one of the wings hit the ground. The airplane crash-landed at position 78.07 N, 38.10 W.
Three injured were air-lifted by a Grumman Albatross; the remaining nine survivors were rescued later.
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
The Winnipeg Evening Tribune 26 September 1952, p1
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