Accident
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Datum: | 22 JUL 1953 |
| Flugzeugtyp: | Handley Page Hastings C.1 |
| Fluggesellschaft: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Kennzeichen: | TG613 |
| Werknummer: | HP67/91 |
| Baujahr: | |
| Besatzung: | Todesopfer: 0 / Insassen: |
| Fluggäste: | Todesopfer: 0 / Insassen: |
| Gesamt: | Todesopfer: 0 / Insassen: |
| Sachschaden: | Zerstört |
| Konsequenzen: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Unfallort: | 224 km (140 Meilen) vom Land entfernt von Idris, Libya (Mittelmeer) |
| Flugphase: | Während des Fluges (ENR) |
| Betriebsart: | Militär |
| Flug von: | Tripoli-Castel Benito Airport (TIP/HLLT), Libyen |
| Habbaniya RAF Station, Irak |
Three engines failed over the Mediterranean Sea, some 90 minutes after departure. The pilot was forced to ditch the plane, during which both wings were ripped off. The passengers and crew were picked up by a ship. Six occpuants were injured in the accident. Oil 'gulping' of the engines seemed to be possible reason for the three engines to fail one after the other.
Informationsquelle:
» 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.
