Thanks to a Mickey Finn my first ever flight was in a Handley Page Hastings from Cottesmore to Leuchars. On the same day, 6th July 1965, Hastings TG557 lost an elevator and fell out the sky killing 41 crew and army parachutists. The problem was found to be fatigue in the elevator hinge bolt brackets. Both aircraft were from the same squadron (RAF Colerne??) and I did sometimes wonder how close the squadron tasking might have come to swapping the two aircraft. There but for the swipe of a chinagraph………