Special report

Stockport Air Disaster

PERHAPS Stockport's darkest day - we look back to Sunday June 4 1967, when a passenger aircraft crashed onto the town, leaving 72 people dead. Click below for pictures, dramatic stories and video reports ...

 

The blackest day in town's recent history

THE Stockport Air Disaster on June 4 1967 is the blackest event in the history of modern Stockport.

Service honours the dead and the living

THE lives of the 72 people who died in the Stockport Air Disaster were remembered at a memorial service at Hopes Carr on Sunday.

 

Survivors pay tribute to their rescuers

THREE survivors from the 1967 air disaster attended Sunday's memorial service at Hopes Carr.

Full story and video report here.

Miracle that more weren't killed

A REMARKABLE factor of the Stockport Air Disaster is that there were no fatalities on the ground.

 

The world's press flocked to the site

WHEN the British Midland holiday plane carrying 84 passengers and crew crashed in Stockport, the eyes of the nation's media fixed squarely on Hopes Carr.

'There were so many heroes that Sunday morning'

WHEN the people of Stockport woke on Sunday June 4 1967 they would have had no idea of the disastrous events about to unfold.

 

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