I was aged 5 and at school on Shadow Moss School on Ringway Road, Wythenshaw, when a BEA Viscount Discovery carrying 15 passengers and 5 flight crew, about to land at Manchester airport, came down short of the runway. Everyone on board and a young mother and baby who were in the house that the aircraft hit were killed.
I don't remember this incident, but was told years later that we'd been sent home and that the school (which is no longer there) was used to temporarily hold the bodies of the victims. The school is no longer there, but looking at the map I think it could well have been closer to the runway than was the house that was destroyed.
At the time Dad was the vicar at the newly built William Temple Church in Woodhouse Park. We lived in a council house on (I think) Cornishway and I would walk to school, so it wasn't far.
The accident report cited mechanical failure as the cause. A tragedy which could have been much worse.
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