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Crash Landing (aka Rescue at Sea) is a 1958 American dramatic disaster film directed by Fred F. Sears starring Gary Merrill and Nancy Davis. [1] [2]This was the last film in which Nancy Reagan (billed as Nancy Davis) appeared, though she continued to work in television for some years thereafter. [3]
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.
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.
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]
Gary Fred Merrill (August 2, 1915 – March 5, 1990) was an American film and television actor whose credits included more than 50 feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of television guest appearances.
Crash Landing, an American film featuring Gary Merrill Crash Landing (1999 film) , a Chinese thriller film Crash Landing (2005 film) , a 2005 American action film
16 December 1948: An RAF York crashed on landing at RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire. [1] 5 January 1949: British South American Airways York Star Venture crashed at Caravellos Bay, Brazil. [1] 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]
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.