Date:	Monday 22 June 1953
Time:
Type:	Handley Page Hastings C.2
Owner/operator:	Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	WJ335
MSN:	HP67/136
Year of manufacture:	1952
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Abingdon RAF Station (ABB) -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Abingdon RAF Station (ABB/EGUD)
Destination airport:

Narrative:
The Hastings C.2 transport plane was taking part in an exercise and taxied in line for a stream takeoff from RAF Abingdon. After takeoff the airplane pitched up steeply and climbed to about 300 feet. It stalled and fell to the ground.
Investigation revealed that the elevator control locks had been left engaged or reapplied after release. There had been a modification for the Hastings fleet to prevent this, but apparently of no avail to WJ335.

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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