Date:	Saturday 5 March 1949
Time:	day
Type:	Handley Page Halifax GR.VI
Owner/operator:	224 Sqn RAF
Registration:	RG850
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz, Andalusia -   Spain
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Aldergrove, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Destination airport:	RAF North Front, Gibraltar (LXGB)

Narrative:
Handley Page Halifax GR.VI RG850/'XB-C', 224 Squadron, RAF Aldergrove: Written off (destroyed) 5-3-49 when crashed on approach to RAF North Front, Gibraltar. Five crew killed. One of the left engines failed on final approach to Gibraltar. The pilot elected to make a go-around, but the Halifax lost speed, began to slip to starboard and dived into the ground close to the eastern threshold of the airfield. The aircraft stalled and came down at La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz, Andalusia, one and a half miles north-north west of the airport. Five crew members were killed while two others, among them the pilot, were injured.

Crew of Halifax RG850 - fatalities
Pilot I James Stewart Weatherton (pilot)
Pilot I Maksymillion Chihoszweski (Service Number 782796) (pilot u/t, Polish National)
Nav I Graham Evans (Navigator)
Engineer Robert George Henry Radford (Flight Engineer)
plus, one unidentified crew member. All posted as "killed on active service 4-3-49"

1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.86. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.483
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain)
4. El Tiempo 6 March 1949, page 8
5. Flypast Magazine March 2017 pages 52-53
6. 224 Squadron RAF ORB for March 1949: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR/27/2746/59: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8422241
7. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-handley-page-hp70-halifax-met6-la-linea-de-la-concepcion-5-killed
8. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110448235/maksymilian-cichoszewski
9. https://listakrzystka.pl/en/cichoszewski-maksymilian/
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._224_Squadron_RAF#History

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Sep-2008 01:00	ASN archive	Added
07-Jun-2010 01:40	TB	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Other fatalities, Nature, Narrative]
26-Apr-2014 19:15	TB	Updated [Total occupants, Location, Country, Source, Narrative]
29-Apr-2015 08:41	Anon.	Updated [Phase, Destination airport, Narrative]
09-Mar-2017 15:19	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
29-Oct-2019 23:21	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
01-Nov-2019 16:00	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]