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The 1949 Manchester DC-3 accident occurred when a twin-engined British European Airways Douglas DC-3 (registration: G-AHCY) crashed at in the Pennines near Oldham, Lancashire, after a flight from Belfast. The accident killed 24 of the passengers and crew on board.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Accident Description )〕 The aircraft had first flown in 1944,〔 and was captained by F. W. Pinkerton, a former RAF serviceman who, as a sergeant, had been posted missing during World War II.〔 The airline was government-owned.〔 ==Accident== The aircraft took off from Belfast Nutts Corner Airport at 10:58 on a short-haul flight to Manchester Airport, with twenty-nine passengers and either three or four crew members on board. US newspaper reports, using agency reports filed soon after the incident, favour the former number of crew;〔 ''Flight'' Magazine, reporting a little time later, favoured the latter. An hour after take-off, at 11:59, the last radio contact with the crew occurred and about one minute later the aircraft crashed. It was flying at approximately when it hit a mist-covered hill () at Wimberry Stones, near to the Chew Valley at Saddleworth, Oldham, from Manchester Airport. Contact was made approximately from the summit.〔 The aircraft broke up and caught fire. Twenty-one passengers and all the crew members died, leaving eight survivors.〔 The dead passengers consisted of eleven women, six men and four children, three of whom were aged under two years;〔 the crew were all male. All but two of the dead died at the scene. The injured were treated at Oldham Infirmary. The rescue was hampered by the bad weather and remote location of the crash site. Workers from a paper mill approximately away formed a human chain to carry the injured from the hillside to lower ground and a doctor at the scene said The cause of the accident was an error in navigation, incorrect approach procedure and failure to check the position of the aircraft accurately before the descent from a safe height.〔 An hour later, a Proctor light aircraft crashed on a test flight in mist at Baildon in Yorkshire, approximately away. All four of its passengers died.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1949 Manchester BEA Douglas DC-3 accident」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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