Accident
Last updated: 21 May 2013
| Statuts: | |
| Date: | 22 JUI 1953 |
| Type/Sous-type: | Handley Page Hastings C.1 |
| Compagnie: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Immatriculation: | TG613 |
| Numéro de série: | HP67/91 |
| Année de Fabrication: | |
| Equipage: | victimes: 0 / à bord: |
| Passagers: | victimes: 0 / à bord: |
| Total: | victimes: 0 / à bord: |
| Dégats de l'appareil: | Perte Totale |
| Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Lieu de l'accident: | 224 km (140 milles) de Idris, Libya (Mer Méditerranée) |
| Phase de vol: | En vol (ENR) |
| Nature: | Militaire |
| Aéroport de départ: | Tripoli-Castel Benito Airport (TIP/HLLT), Libye |
| 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.
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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