Plane Crash

On the 12th. March 1950 the eyes of the world turned to Llandow, and what was then, the biggest single disaster in British aviation history. An Avro Tudor V (G-AKBY) returning with Welsh rugby supporters from Collinstown airfield near Dublin (Ireland) reared upwards to around 350 ft. and at angle of 60-70 degrees. The planes' engines stopped abruptly and it stalled into the ground starboard wing first, just yards from runway 28. Only three of the eighty three people on board survived.