Seventy-five years ago, a plane crash on a scale the world had never seen before happened in a tiny Welsh village. The aircraft had been packed full of jubilant rugby fans on their way home from ...

On 12 March 1950, an Avro Tudor airliner carrying Welsh rugby fans from a Five-Nations game in Ireland was coming into land at RAF Llandow. It crashed just short of the runway and all but three of ...

From Cardiff, in Wales, a four-engined Avro Tudor V took off one day last week for the 200-mile hop across the Irish Sea to Dublin. Aboard were 78 passengers (72 men, six women) and a crew of five ...

The commemoration was held at an RAF station to remember the event on March 12, 1950, when an Avro Tudor airliner, full of ...