Little Baldon air crash [SEP] point in time
Little Baldon air crash
The Little Baldon air crash occurred on 6 July 1965 when a Handley Page Hastings C1A transport aircraft operated by No. 36 Squadron Royal Air Force, registration TG577, crashed into a field in Little Baldon, near Chiselhampton, Oxfordshire, shortly after taking off from RAF Abingdon. The flight was captained by Flt Lt John Akin. All 41 people aboard, including six crew, perished in the crash, making it the third worst air crash in the United Kingdom at the time.
A subsequent inquest
March 2017. A memorial service was held at St Peter's parish church, Drayton. The congregation then went to the crash site, where it was met by eight RAF Police dogs and their handlers, representing the eight dogs killed in the crash.
See also.
- 1957 in aviation
- Elvetham air crash, in which a fuel leak and engine fire caused an RAF Consolidated Liberator to crash east of Hartley Wintney, Hampshire in 1945
- Little Baldon air crash, in which an RAF Handley Page Hastings