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On 10 November 1971, a Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount, registration PK-MVS, crashed in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, after telling air traffic controllers they could not make their destination due to bad weather. All 69 people aboard the aircraft were killed in the crash.
Both aircraft crashed in Ankara, killing all 14 on board the Viscount, all three on board the C-47 and a further 87 people on the ground. [60] On 17 February 1963, Vickers 807 Viscount, ZK-BWO, "City of Dunedin" of the National Airways Corporation overran the southern end of the runway at Wellington New Zealand, sliding down onto Moa Point Road ...
1962 LOT Vickers Viscount Warsaw crash; M. MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750; Mandala Airlines Flight 660; N. 1957 Nutts Corner BEA Viscount crash; S. SAETA ...
The wing of the Vickers Viscount used a single main spar made up of a centre section in the fuselage, two inner sections and two outer sections. The main spar comprised an upper boom, a shear web and a lower boom. The aircraft was designed and type-certificated to the principle of a safe-life. Before a component reaches its safe-life it must be ...
United Airlines Flight 823 was a scheduled flight from Philadelphia International Airport, Pennsylvania, to Huntsville International Airport, Alabama, with 39 on board.On July 9, 1964, around 18:15 EST, the aircraft, a Vickers Viscount 745D, registration N7405, [2] crashed 2.25 mi (3.62 km) northeast of Parrottsville, Tennessee, after experiencing an uncontrollable fire on board, killing all ...
August 12 - Air Inter Flight 2611, a Vickers Viscount, crashes into a farmhouse near Lyon in poor weather conditions, killing 16 including one on the ground. August 21 – Aeroflot Flight 366, a Tupolev Tu-124, ditches in the Neva River in Leningrad after engine failure; there are no fatalities among the 52 on board, but the aircraft is destroyed.
The aircraft involved in the crash was a Vickers Vanguard type 951, registered in United Kingdom as G-APEC. The aircraft was built in 1959 with a serial number of 706, and was delivered to BEA in 1961. [5]
The aircraft operating the flight was a Vickers Viscount, Makers Serial Number (MSN) 394. It was built in 1958 for Misrair, the Egyptian airline, and sold to British Eagle International Airlines on September 3, 1965. [3]