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Remembering the liberator crash: 80 years since 27 died on Backdown Hills

The crash near Taunton killed 27 returning or posted passengers; the aircraft failed to clear a 930-foot hill, according to local reports at the time.

TODAY marks 80 years since the liberator plane crash, which took the lives of 27 people on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset.

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somersetcountygazette.co.uk broke the news in Somerset, United Kingdom on Saturday, November 22, 2025.
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