Airplane Crash - Nailstone, England 06/26/1981
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Nailstone, England
| Date | 06/26/1981 |
| Location | Nailstone, England |
| Operator | Dan Air Services |
| Route | London - East Midlands |
| Type | Hawker Siddeley HS-748 |
| Registration | G-ASPL |
| Cn/In | 1560 |
| Aboard | 3 |
| Fatalities | 3 |
| Ground | 0 |
| Summary | The the right rear door of the cargo plane detached and struck the horizontal tail plane and became lodged on the leading edge. Control was lost, and the aircraft entered a steep dive. During the dive, the wings and tail plane failed due to overstressing. |
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