Date Posted:26/06/09 21:48:08 Author:David Tong Subject: re TG 559
I well remember the crash of TG 559. I had only recently been posted to Abingdon ( my first posting) as radio servicing officer and was duty engineer that night.
In the officers mess we heard a loud bang and clattering of metal against tarmac. Being D.E. I was i/c crash site. The aircraft had landed heavily on the runway but had run off about 100 metres into a field. Strangely enough this was our most troublesome aircraft for radio/radar, and thus had the best equipment we had. After the crash we quietly recovered all the good equipment and replaced the sets with our problem sets.
TG 613 was lost just before I arrived at Abingdon, but all the aircrews said that the engine failure was due to use of recovered oil instead of new oil - air ministry policy to save money!!
