- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: July 06, 1965
Time: 1600
Location: Near Oxford, England
Operator: Military -Royal Air Force
Flight #: ?
Route: ?
AC Type: Handley Page Hastings C Mark 1
Registration: TG577
cn / ln: ?
Aboard: 41   (passengers:35  crew:6)
Fatalities: 41   (passengers:35  crew:6)
Ground: 0
Summary: The plane, carrying paratroopers, climbed to 2,000 ft., made a left turn and crashed. Fatigue fracture of 2 bolts that attached the elevator to the horizontal stabilizer resulted in an abnormal pitch-up attitude and stall.
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