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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]
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.
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]
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. Twenty-one soldiers and five crew members were killed, and one person survived. [198] 17 November
During World War II the airport was destroyed, but the airfield was later used by the British Royal Air Force and named RAF Castel Benito, changing to RAF Idris in 1952. In the 1950s and 1960s the airport was known as Tripoli Idris International Airport. [10] [11] It was renovated for national and international air travel in September 1978. [12]
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]
The Advocate Messanger said "if only the dialogue could have met the challenge, the film might have stood a chance." [2]According to Bullet Proof Action the film "fulfilled Antonio Sabato Jr’s obligation as an action star to appear in a Die Hard inspired movie.