ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333871
Date: | Thursday 7 January 1960 |
Time: | |
Type: | Vickers 802 Viscount |
Owner/operator: | British European Airways - BEA |
Registration: | G-AOHU |
MSN: | 169 |
Year of manufacture: | 1957 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 59 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | London Airport (LHR) -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Dublin Airport (DUB/EIDW) |
Destination airport: | London Airport (LHR/EGLL) |
Narrative:The Viscount landed at London Airport in fog. After touchdown the nose gear failed. The plane skidded some 500yds down the runway before coming to rest. A fire erupted in the nose section of the plane and almost destroyed the entire fuselage.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The failure of Air Traffic Control to notify the captain of a critical deterioration in runway Visual Range during his final approach. In consequence he attempted to land in a visibility which gave him insufficient visual reference with the result that the nosewheels contacted the runway before the mainwheels thereby overstressing the nose wheel unit and fracturing its attachments."
Sources:
Survey of accidents to aircraft in the United Kingdom 1960 / CAA
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