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Hastings TG615 Bannerdown Hill Colerne
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http://www.raf-transport-command-veterans-association.com/313cbd90.jpg
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Hastings TG552 at Negombo in 1951
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http://rafforum.activeboard.com/t17705668/12th-march-1951-hastings-tg552-c1-raf-negombo/
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Hastings TG580 Crashed on Gan 3rd July 1959
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TG580 crashed on Gan on 3rd July 1959, thankfully only minor injuries were sustained. The aircraft of 48 Squadron landed in a crosswind exceeding 23 knots, the aircrafts port oleo buckled and the aircraft groundlooped
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Hastings TG564 at Kai Tak
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TG564 Crashed on landing and caught fire at RAF Kai Tak 27/07/1953 this aircraft was on the strength of 53 Squadron at the time of the crash when it hit a hut, sadly one person on the ground was killed in this incident. By kind permission S/Ldr Harry Liddell
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Hastings WD497 RAF Seletar 1961
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This is the accident record card as provided by The RAF Museum at Hendon
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Hastings TG610 Thorney Island 1953
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http://rafforum.activeboard.com/t52186694/17th-december-1963-hastings-c1a-tg610-242-ocu-crashed-at-tho/
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Hastings TG522 at Khartoum 29th May 1959
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http://rafforum.activeboard.com/t18697165/29th-may-1959-hastings-tg522-khartoum/
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Hastings TG602 at Shallufah 12th January 1953
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12/01/1953 TG602 Elevator problems over Egypt, crashed 9 died. Over the years I have accumulated a huge amount of data on Hastings aircraft, I think even Sir Frederick would have been impressed by this but there again perhaps he wouldn't after reading this: 12/01/1953 TG602 Elevator problems over...
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Hastings TG601
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Slightly off topic, but here is a couple of old photographs of a sorry looking TG601. No idea where they were taken, but possibly in north Africa. According to my late father's log books, he first flew in it on 2/12/1950 with Pilot Thirlwell on a 30 minute supply drop, and last flight on 4/11/1953 with Pi...
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Hastings WD492 Thule Greenland 1952
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http://www.air-despatch.co.uk/pages/opendoor/02/frozen/frozen.htm
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Hastings WD478 Strubby
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WD478 crashed at Strubby/Manby on take off on 19th March 1951 the Hastings was seen to lift off, stall and dived into the ground, sadly 3 died whilst 5 others survived, this aircraft had only been off the production line 6 days earlier. No accident record exists. I'm not suggesting anything here as thi...
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Hastings TG577 at Little Baldon 6th July 1965
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This is still the RAF's worst peacetime accident involving British service personnel, I have had much communication with the bereaved families and have met some of them, if anyone wishes to contact me or others on this subject you can always send me a Private Message Some info on another forum of mine...
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Hastings TG536 Malta
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I know nothing of this where on 3rd December 1951 the port wheel of TG536 'hung up', apparently a newspaper photo shows the outer port propeller blades buckled, the Hastings was ferrying troops to the Canal Zone, the aircraft was subsequently repaired as I had flown in her three times after this date,...
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Hastings WJ335 at Abingdon
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Sent in by Cecil Irvine on 8th February 2006 re WJ335 which crashed on take-off at Abingdon on 26th May 1953 I was stationed at Abingdon when this crash occured. I was a lowly engine Fitter and was on the parking ramp that morning. I watched as WJ335 began it's take-off run. About halfway along the runw...
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Hastings WJ341 Abingdon 1955
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Crashed at Abingdon and groundlooped after undershooting the runway, a wing broke away, the three crew aboard survived the ordeal 26.07.1955 written off as Cat 5
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Hastings TG566 at Aldergrove 19-9-1962
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This was the only loss of a Hastings of 202 Squadron aircraft of Coastal Command when on 19th September 1962, at RAF Aldergrove, upon take off the aircraft slew, the fuselage was twisted and the hull was deemed to be Cat 5 http://www.ukserials.com/images/losses/tg566.jpg
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Hastings TG574 at Benina, Libya 20th December 1950
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Much correspondence I have had involving this accident can be seen here http://splashdown2.tripod.com/id11.html If anyone can add anything further then please do so
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Hastings TG584 at RAF Dishforth
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13 September 1955Hastings TG584 lost control attempting to overshoot at RAF Dishforth and crashed, sadly 5 died.
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Hastings WJ342 crashed at Eastleigh 23rd January 1961
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Neville Webb sent me these photos of 342 from his time at RAF Eastleigh
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Hastings TG611 Crashed on take-off at Tegel
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Crashed at Tegel on 16th July 1949 during the Berlin Airlift, her home base, as with most at this time, was Dishforth in Yorkshire http://www.baaa-acro.com/Photos-63/TG611-2.jpg
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Hastings TG559 Abingdon 1953
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Crashed at Abingdon on the 9th October 1953 Stanley England took the photo which was forwarded to me by his son Clive the crash happened at Abingdon at night on 9th October 1953 in inclement weather [fog]. Fortunately there was no loss of life, the aircraft eventually became an instructional airfr...
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Hastings C3 NZ5804 of the RNZAF
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Phil Maynard sent this picture to me that his father had taken of a crashed Hastings C3 at Darwin, Australia on the 9th September 1955 of RNZAF NZ5804, the aircraft had lost power on three engines after suffering a multi bird strike on take-off, all 25 on board escaped
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Hastings WD483 at Ataq
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Updated 13th March 2010 an email in from Peter King who writes: WD483 HastingsC2 Ataq, Aden 9th April 1956 About the same time there was trouble up-country in the area around Ataq and for the first time in years an army infantry detachment came to Aden. At first they had to sleep on beds placed on the ve...
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Hastings WD491 West Raynham 9th June 1967
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WD491 Finished its flying day like this, at West Raynham, the official accident report states that on 9th June 1967 the starboard tyre burst on landing, the aircraft swung and ended up on the grass, with the tail in the air, due to the aircraft being at the end of its service life it was decided to scrap th...
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Hastings TG508 of 242 OCU Thorney Island 7th March 1962
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TG508 7 March 1962 this aircraft yawed on landing at Thorney island [242OCU] with the wingtip striking the ground the aircraft caught fire and was a write off, my thanks to George Bish for the use of the photos, thankfully all aboard survived 07/03/1962 TG508 Crashed on landing and caught fire at Thor...
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Hastings TG624 at RAF Aldergrove
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Olive Kennedy wrote this a few years ago: While stationed at RAF Aldergrove in Northern Ireland I had quite a few flights in 202 Squadron Hastings aircraft. They were Meterological Reconnaissance "Bismuth" at that time, the met. squadron was disbanded in 1964 a couple of years after I le...
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Hastings WD498 Crashed at El Adem 10th October 1961
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This was a terrible accident involving many lives lost http://www.don-simmonds.co.uk/hastings.htm
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Hastings TG575 crashed at El Adem
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4th May 1966 My thanks to the late John Brignell for the use of the photo, this accident occurred whilst landing at El Adem
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Hastings TG499 Beacon Hill Wiltshire
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TG499This was the first production Hastings aircraft and made its maiden flight on 25th April 1947, it had an underslung belly Paratechnicon, this became detached from the aircraft on 26th September 1949 hitting the tailplane resulting in the aircraft crashing at Beacon Hill, Wiltshire. There w...
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