Date: | Monday 12 January 1953 |
Time: | |
Type: | Handley Page Hastings C.1 |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | TG602 |
MSN: | HP67/80 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 5,6 km WSW of Shallufa RAF Station -
Egypt
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Fayid RAF Station |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The Hastings transport plane climbed away in steep turns after takeoff. At a height of about 2000 feet the starboard elevator broke away, followed by the port elevator and the tailplane. The aircraft lost control and crashed into the ground.
Investigation revealed that a certain modification which included the installation of increased diameter bolts in the tail section had not been carried out on TG602.
Sources:
E-mail B.Dawson (29-6-2007)
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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