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The 1957 Aquila Airways Solent crash occurred on the Isle of Wight in England on 15 November. With 45 lives lost, at the time it was the second worst aircraft accident within the United Kingdom, then at the time the worst ever air disaster to occur on English soil.
This is a list of accidents and incidents involving the Westland Sea King helicopter, a British license-built and developed version of the American Sikorsky Sea King anti-submarine and utility helicopter, [1] As of 2012, Westland Sea Kings have been involved in forty-six significant accidents and incidents, involving forty-eight aircraft, during their service career.
The 1962 Channel Airways Dakota accident occurred on 6 May 1962 when a Channel Airways [N 1] Douglas C-47A Dakota, registered G-AGZB and operating a scheduled passenger flight from Jersey to Portsmouth, collided with a cloud-covered hill at St Boniface Down, near Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. The aircraft had previously been owned by British ...
The Robinson crash-landed into a stationary helicopter, sending the propellers into the other aircraft before they eventually spun off. The helicopter spun out of control on Sunday morning. Jam Press
Iona McGregor firefighters responded to a helicopter crash on Saturday evening. According to a social media post, the helicopter crashed behind one of its fire stations.
6 May – Channel Airways, Douglas C-47A G-AGZB crashed at St Boniface Down, Isle of Wight, killing 13 of the 18 people on board. 28 December - (Channel Air Bridge), Aviation Traders ATL98 'Carvair', G-ARSF, crashed on approach in a snowstorm at Rotterdam airport and overturned, killing the pilot, 3 crew + 14 pax safe; 1963
7 January 1945, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning being ferried from the north of England got lost and thinking he was over the Isle of Wight signalled he intended to land, anti-aircraft guns fired and he crashed into the cliffs at Beauport, SW of Jersey, the wounded pilot, Lt Moutray, had parachuted out and was rescued from St Brelades Bay by lifeboat ...
FacebookThe young men who were accompanying a 22-year-old British national when he was killed in a horrific private helicopter accident on a Greek island on Monday are livid about the story being ...