Blackbushe to Tripoli Trooping Flight Crash (G-AJBO)

Flight Details and Accident Sequence The aircraft was operating a trooping flight from Blackbushe Airport to Idris in Tripoli. It carried a crew of four, one supernumerary crew member as a passenger, and thirty passengers, for a total of thirty-five people on board. A few seconds after 2214LT, the aircraft was observed making its takeoff run and lifting off. At 2216, the crew contacted the control tower and reported, “I have got a port engine failure I am making a left-hand circuit to come in again.” After completing the downwind and base legs of the circuit, the aircraft crashed in a wood just as, or just after, it turned onto the final approach. The impact occurred about 1,200 yards from the runway threshold. Thirty-four of the thirty-five people on board lost their lives.