The Stockport Air Disaster was the crash of a Canadair C-4 Argonaut aircraft owned by British Midlands International, registration G-ALHG, near the centre of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England on Sunday 4 June 1967. 72 of the 84 aboard were killed in the accident. Of the 12 survivors, all were seriously injured. It currently stands as the fourth worst disaster in British aviation history.
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