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On 11 November a Short Stirling C.5 operated by No. 158 Squadron RAF was departing for the United Kingdom when it crashed on takeoff from RAF Castel Benito in Libya after the wing caught fire, 21 soldiers and five crew were killed, one person survived. [1] [5]
RAF Castel Benito (called originally in Italian "Tripoli-Castel Benito Airport") was an airport of Tripoli created by the Italians in Italian Libya. Originally, it was a small military airport named Castel Benito , but it was enlarged in the late 1930s and was later used by the British RAF after 1943.
Originally, Tripoli-Castel Benito Airport was a Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force) airfield created in 1934 in the southern outskirts of Italian Tripoli. [2] It was the operational base for the "15° Stormo da bombardamento" with Savoia Marchetti SM. 79 and SM.81 as well as the "13° Gruppo da caccia" with Fiat CR.32 and CR.42.
1945 – A Short Stirling C.5 operated by No. 158 Squadron RAF was departing for the United Kingdom when it crashed on take off from RAF Castel Benito in Libya after the wing caught fire, 21 soldiers and five crew were killed, one person survived.
1 February 1949: An RAF York crashed after take off at Castel Benito, Libya. [1] 15 March 1949: A Skyways York crashed on approach to Gatow, West Germany. [1] 21 April 1949: An RAF York was damaged beyond repair during a landing at RAF Gutersloh, West Germany. [1] 19 June 1949: A Skyways York crashed at Neustadt near Wundstorf, British Zone of ...
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Patrick Arthur Dorehill, DSO, DFC & Bar (4 July 1921 – 7 June 2016) was an officer in the Royal Air Force.A bomber pilot, he flew as flight engineer for John Nettleton during the Augsburg raid, where they carried out a daring daylight attack against the MAN U-boat engine plant at Augsburg in southern Germany, earning him an immediate DFC and his captain the Victoria Cross.
JetBlue Flight 292 making an emergency landing in September 2005 with its nose landing gear turned sideways.. This list of accidents and incidents involving airliners by airline summarizes airline accidents and all kinds of incidents, major or minor, by airline company with flight number, location, date, aircraft type, and cause.