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The 1965 British European Airways Vickers Vanguard crash was a domestic flight operated by a Vickers Vanguard 951 aircraft of British European Airways (BEA). On Wednesday, 27 October 1965, the aircraft crashed during landing at London Heathrow Airport , causing the deaths of all 36 people on board.
All on board, 20 passengers and crew, died in the crash as did two people in the house. The aircraft involved was a Vickers Viscount registration G-ALWE operated by British European Airways . The cause of the crash was metal fatigue in flaps causing loss of control.
On Thursday 30 August the Vickers Voyager arrived in Cork at 8:15 p.m. and loaded the submersibles Pisces II and Pisces V, which had been flown in overnight. The ship left Cork at 10:30 p.m. [5] [16] At 2 a.m. on Friday 31 August the Vickers Voyager reached the scene and launched Pisces II with a polypropylene rope attached. However, the ...
British European Airways Flight 706 (BE706/BEA706) was a scheduled international passenger flight from London, England to Salzburg, Austria.On 2 October 1971, whilst en route at 19,000 feet (5,791 m), [1] the Vickers Vanguard the pressure bulkhead at the rear of the cabin failed.
Data from Vickers Aircraft Co Ltd General characteristics Crew: 1 Capacity: 2 Length: 24 ft 7 in (7.5 m) Wingspan: 30 ft 10 in (9.40 m) Height: 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) Wing area: 149.3 sq ft (13.87 m 2) Empty weight: 928 lb (421 kg) useful load 650 lbs Gross weight: 1,850 lb (839 kg) Fuel capacity: 60 U.S. gallons (230 L; 50 imp gal) Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 915iS horizontally opposed turbocharged ...
The Vickers Vanguard was a short/medium-range turboprop airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs.. The Vanguard was developed during the mid-to-late 1950s in response to a specification issued by British European Airways (BEA) for a 100-seat airliner; Vickers decided to design such an airliner as a follow-up to the existing Viscount series, the ...
On 15 January 1953, a twin-engined Vickers Valetta transport aircraft of the Royal Air Force (RAF), serial number VX562, collided over the Mediterranean Sea with a four-engined RAF Avro Lancaster maritime patrol aircraft. All 26 people on board both aircraft were killed.
[Note 1] The aircraft climbed to an altitude of 19,000 feet (5,800 m) for the 189-minute flight. [2] [4] [7] At 11:34 am the pilot advised that the aircraft was 30 nautical miles (56 km) short of its destination and passing altitude 7,000 feet (2,100 m) on descent to Port Hedland airport. No further radio transmission was received from the ...