What the records say
- When
- 4 Jun 1967
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 53.41° N, 2.15° W
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 72
- Injured
- 12
- Cause
- fuel starvation, stall
Stockport air disaster
1967 aviation accident
On 4 June 1967, a Canadair C-4 Argonaut passenger aircraft owned by British Midland Airways operating as British Midland Flight 542 crashed near the centre of Stockport, Cheshire, England. Of the 84 people on board, 72 were killed. It is the fourth-worst accident in British aviation history, and happened just a day after the 1967 Air Ferry DC-4 accident.
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