ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334940
Date: | Wednesday 2 March 1955 |
Time: | |
Type: | Handley Page Hastings C.2 |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | WD484 |
MSN: | HP67/112 |
Year of manufacture: | 1951 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Boscombe Down RAF Station -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Boscombe Down RAF Station (EGDM) |
Destination airport: | Boscombe Down RAF Station (EGDM) |
Narrative:The elevators were locked as the Hastings attempted to take off from RAF Boscombe Down. The airplane stalled at 200 feet and crashed.
The aircraft was flown by the RAF RRE (Radar Research Establishment).
Sources:
Broken Wings : Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents / James J. Halley
Hastings Bangs and Prangs and Splashes and Crashes Test Flying Memorial Project Location
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