United Kingdom - Ireland
Jul. 07, 1965 - 41 DIED IN SKYMEN'S PLANE CRASH. Forty-one Service men died yesterday when an R.A.F. Hastings transport aircraft plunged into a barley field minutes after taking off on a parachute training - 13 R.A.F and 11 Army. There were also eight R.A.F instructors, six crew ad three air quarter masters. The Hastings, which crashed near the little village of Dorchester, Oxfordshire had taken off from Abingdon on a 15-mile flight to nearby benson. PHOTO SHOWS:- View of the crashed plane in the barley field yesterday
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