Accident description
Last updated: 20 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 23 JAN 1961 |
| Type: | Handley Page Hastings C.2 |
| Operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | WJ342 |
| C/n / msn: | HP67/143 |
| First flight: | 1952 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Nairobi-Eastleigh Airport (Kenya) |
| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Nairobi-Eastleigh Airport (HKRE), Kenya |
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An engine failed during takeoff from Eastleigh Airport. The Hastings swerved onto a grass area where the undercarriage collapsed.
Events:
Sources:
» Broken Wings : Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents / James J. Halley
» Hastings Bangs and Prangs and Splashes and Crashes
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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.
