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| Date: | Thursday 12 April 1951 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Handley Page Hastings C.1 |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | TG552 |
| MSN: | HP67/43 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Negombo RAF Station -
 Sri Lanka
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Negombo RAF Station (CMB/VCBI) |
The Hastings transport plane crashed on landing. It went off the left side of the runway and ground looped 180 degrees.
Sources:
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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