Seventy-five years ago a plane packed full of rugby fans travelling home after seeing Wales beat Ireland in a Five Nations match crashed in a tiny Welsh village.
Eighty of the 83 people on board died in the 12 March 1950 crash, with the plane falling just short of its final destination at Llandow Airfield in the Vale of Glamorgan.
It was, at the time, the world’s worst air disaster.
Betty Rossiter, whose brother David Hawkins – Dai – died in the crash, said her mother “just went to pieces”, as did her father.
“My mother was never the same after. It was a terrible, terrible time,” she said.
Video edited by Tink Llewellyn.
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