ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333637
Date: | Monday 23 January 1961 |
Time: | |
Type: | Handley Page Hastings C.2 |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | WJ342 |
MSN: | HP67/143 |
Year of manufacture: | 1952 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Nairobi-Eastleigh Airport -
Kenya
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Nairobi-Eastleigh Airport (HKRE) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:An engine failed during takeoff from Eastleigh Airport. The Hastings swerved onto a grass area where the undercarriage collapsed.
Sources:
Broken Wings : Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents / James J. Halley
Hastings Bangs and Prangs and Splashes and Crashes Location
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