Sutton Wick, Oxfordshire
Encyclopedia
Sutton Wick is a village located near Abingdon
, Oxfordshire
, England
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heavy transport aircraft on a flight from RAF Abingdon
crashed at Sutton Wick on 5 March 1957. All but four of the 22 people on board died in the accident, and two people were killed on the ground.
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Abingdon or archaically Abingdon-on-Thames is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England. It is the seat of the Vale of White Horse district. Previously the county town of Berkshire, Abingdon is one of several places that claim to be Britain's oldest continuously occupied town, with...
, Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Air crash
A Blackburn Beverley C.Mk 1Blackburn Beverley
The Blackburn B-101 Beverley was a 1950s British heavy transport aircraft built by Blackburn and General Aircraft and flown by squadrons of Royal Air Force Transport Command from 1957 until 1967.-Design and development:...
heavy transport aircraft on a flight from RAF Abingdon
RAF Abingdon
RAF Abingdon was a Royal Air Force station near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. It is now known as Dalton Barracks and is used by the Royal Logistic Corps....
crashed at Sutton Wick on 5 March 1957. All but four of the 22 people on board died in the accident, and two people were killed on the ground.