Accident
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Statuts: | |
| Date: | 12 JAN 1953 |
| Type/Sous-type: | Handley Page Hastings C.1 |
| Compagnie: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Immatriculation: | TG602 |
| Numéro de série: | HP67/80 |
| Année de Fabrication: | |
| Equipage: | victimes: 5 / à bord: 5 |
| Passagers: | victimes: 4 / à bord: 4 |
| Total: | victimes: 9 / à bord: 9 |
| Dégats de l'appareil: | Perte Totale |
| Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Lieu de l'accident: | 5,6 km (3.5 milles) WSW of Shallufa RAF Station (Egypte)
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| Phase de vol: | En vol (ENR) |
| Nature: | Militaire |
| Aéroport de départ: | Fayid RAF Station, Egypte |
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The Hastings transport plane climbed away in steep turns after takeoff. At a height of about 2000 feet the starboard elevator broke away, followed by the port elevator and the tailplane. The aircraft lost control and crashed into the ground.
Investigation revealed that a certain modifictation which included the installation of increased diameter bolts in the tail section had not been carried out on TG602.
Sources:
» E-mail B.Dawson (29-6-2007)
» 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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Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tels qui sont connus à ce jour.
