Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 08 MAR 1960 |
| Type: | Handley Page HP.81 Hermes IVA |
| Operator: | Skyways |
| Registration: | G-ALDH |
| C/n / msn: | HP.81/9 |
| First flight: | 1950 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | London-Heathrow Airport (LHR) (United Kingdom)
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| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| London-Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL), United Kingdom |
The starboard main gear leg collapsed during landing rollout at London. It appeared that the failure resulted from a fracture of the radius rod attachment lugs on the main undercarriage leg casing.
Sources:
» Air Pictorial Oct. 1965, p.371
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
