ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 309732
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| Date: | Friday 20 January 1950 |
| Time: | 22:00 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax C.8 |
| Owner/operator: | World Air Freight |
| Registration: | G-AITC |
| MSN: | 1382 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Brindisi Airport (BDS) -
 Italy
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | 18:40 |
| Tehran via Nicosia |
Fuel exhaustion en route to Tehran with a cargo of six and a half tons of cloth. Not able to reach the intended intermediate stop at Nicosia. The emergency landing at Brindisi at night ended up in a crash-landing. The six occupants and the cargo remained unharmed.
Sources:
La Stampa (La Nueva Stampa) 21 January 1950, p5
WDAC
Accident 10 June 1949: National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT 217/2526 -
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C576680
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Mar-2023 14:21 | TB | Added |
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