Two Crashes in Two Hours at One Airport - The Portsmouth Plane Crashes

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Once again looking back at an individual accident or incident for the first time since 2022, we cast our eye to the now long closed Portsmouth Airport, which was, in the mid-1960s, a vital hub for cross-channel services between England, France and the Channel Islands, despite it being the last major British airport to be served solely by grass surface active runways.

Then, on a rainy day in August 1967, the limitations of grass strips were demonstrated in terrible fashion, where under the right conditions, two Hawker Siddeley HS 748 turboprops belonging to Channel Airways either overshot or slid off the runways within two hours of each other, clearly showing that Portsmouth Airport was completely ill-prepared for the onward march of aviation technology.

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