Date: | Sunday 1 September 1957 |
Time: | 05:30 |
Type: | Handley Page HP.81 Hermes IVA |
Owner/operator: | Airwork |
Registration: | G-AKFP |
MSN: | HP.81/1 |
Year of manufacture: | 1948 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 64 |
Other fatalities: | 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Calcutta-Dum Dum Airport (CCU) -
India
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Delhi (unknown airport) |
Destination airport: | Calcutta-Dum Dum Airport (CCU/VECC) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Airwork Hermes G-AKFP was on a flight from Blackbushe to Singapore with intermediate stops at Karachi, Delhi, and Calcutta. Approaching Calcutta, the Hermes was cleared for a runway 19L ILS approach 04:41. At break-off height shower passed and the crew were not able to see the runway; an overshoot was carried out. At 05:01 ATC offered the captain a radar assisted approach to runway 01R; he was no. 2 to land at that moment. Radar Control then guided the aircraft and cleared it for a visual landing at 05:29. At that moment the aircraft was one mile from the threshold and to the left of the runway 01R centreline.
After breaking through clouds the captain observed the runway. R/T was turned down and the captain continued visually. In fact the Hermes was approaching runway 01L. An Indian Airlines DC-3 has just been cleared to line up and hold on runway 01L. On landing, the Hermes struck the DC-3.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "An error on the part of the Commander of the Hermes aircraft in turning down the R/T during the final stage of the radar assisted approach and in deciding to continue the approach under conditions which did not enable him to identify positively the correct runway."
Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 59-AN/54 (24-27)
Location
Images:
photo (c) Dave; Calcutta-Dum Dum Airport (CCU/VECC); 01 September 1957
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