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Date: | Friday 20 January 1950 |
Time: | 22:00 |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax C.8 |
Owner/operator: | World Air Freight |
Registration: | G-AITC |
MSN: | 1382 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Brindisi Airport (BDS) -
Italy
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | 18:40 |
Destination airport: | Tehran via Nicosia |
Narrative:Fuel exhaustion en route to Tehran with a cargo of six and a half tons of cloth. Not able to reach the intended intermediate stop at Nicosia. The emergency landing at Brindisi at night ended up in a crash-landing. The six occupants and the cargo remained unharmed.
Sources:
La Stampa (La Nueva Stampa) 21 January 1950, p5
WDAC
Accident 10 June 1949: National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT 217/2526 -
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