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| Date: | Monday 27 July 1953 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Handley Page Hastings C.1 |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | TG564 |
| MSN: | HP67/55 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Hong Kong-Kai Tak International Airport (HKG) -
 Hong Kong
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Hong Kong-Kai Tak International Airport (HKG/VHHH) |
The Hastings encountered windshear on finals, causing the undercarriage to strike a hut just short of the runway threshold. The aircraft then crashed next to the runway and caught fire.
Sources:
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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