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Hastings TG610 Thorney Island 1953


17th January 1963 at Thorney Island [Pics by Michael Pickett] Further comments can be found here http://rafforum.activeboard.com/t52186694/17th-december-1963-hastings-c1a-tg610-242-ocu-crashed-at-tho/

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Three more photos of TG610 [pics Ref S/Ldr BillW]

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Author: Ray (Taff) Jones - Sgt Navigator

Subject: Hastings TG610

While a student on 242 OCU at Thorney Island I witnessed this aircaft crashing. It was doing a training sortee with a OCU captain. After a simulated 3 engine approach the "idled" engine did not respond when power was applied for the usual "touch and go", and veered off the runway, sadly fatally injuring a Sgt in the ground radio hut. I think the trainee captain was Flt Lt Brown? and the training captain Flt Lt Ireland? 
Although a latecomer to the Hastings fleet, I well rember a situation on take-off from Benson during a stream take-off when we were caught in a slipstream and it was the skill of Flt Lt Roger Jones that saved the day for us all then



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