Originally Posted by
tubby linton
Today is the seventieth anniversary of the Llandow air disaster and I have a few questions.
I have been trying to find an accident report but without success. Would anybody know the weather conditions of the day of the crash and what navigational aids would the airfield been equipped with? Why did the aircraft not have used Rhoose ?
Eighty passengers in a Tudor also seems excessive.
Rhoose didn't open as a commercial airport until 1952, in 1950 it was just an abandoned and dilapidated ex wartime airfield