Date: | Wednesday 1 May 1957 |
Time: | 21:20 |
Type: | Vickers 610 Viking 1B |
Owner/operator: | Eagle Aviation Ltd. |
Registration: | G-AJBO |
MSN: | 241 |
Year of manufacture: | 1947 |
Total airframe hrs: | 488 hours |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 34 / Occupants: 35 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Star Hill -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Blackbushe Airport (BBS/EGLK) |
Destination airport: | Tripoli-Idris Airport (TIP/HLLT) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Viking G-AJBO was on a trooping flight to Idris, Libya when it took off from Blackbushe (BBS) at 21:14 UTC. Two minutes after takeoff the crew reported .. "a port engine failure I am making a left-hand circuit to come in again". When the aircraft was turning to finals, at 1200yds from the threshold, the left wingtip struck the ground and the aircraft crashed inverted in a wood and caught fire.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The failure of the captain to maintain height and a safe flying speed when approaching to land on one engine after the failure (or suspected failure) of the port engine for reasons unknown."
Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest No.9, Circular 56-AN/51 (100-105)
Location
Images:
photo (c) Eric Tarrant; Blackbushe; 19 October 2011
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