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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 ...
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 ...
The aircraft crashed into the ground in an area of thick forest and exploded. [3] All 76 passengers and 11 crew on board were killed. Flight 925 was the first ever fatal crash involving the Vickers VC10 as well as the deadliest accident or incident. [4] [5]
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 ...
Of the 163 aircraft built 55 aircraft were lost in accidents between 1946 and 1965 with a total of 343 fatalities. The highest number of fatalities (40) occurred in the 11 September 1963 crash of F-BJER of Airnautic. [1] Below is a list of accidents and incidents involving the Vickers VC.1 Viking, by date:
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the Vickers VC.1 Viking" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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]
The aircraft was a Vickers Viscount 803 which flew under tail-number EI-AOM and had been in service since 1957 with a total of 18,806 lifetime flight hours. [6] Aer Lingus operated approximately 20 Viscount aircraft in the 1950s and 1960s, of which two others were involved in serious incidents.