ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 332679
| Date: | Wednesday 17 March 1965 |
| Time: | 09:22 |
| Type: | Handley Page HPR-7 Herald 202 |
| Owner/operator: | Eastern Provincial Airways |
| Registration: | CF-NAF |
| MSN: | 160 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1962 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4135 hours |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart 527 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Upper Musquodoboit, NS -
 Canada
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Halifax International Airport, NS (YHZ/CYHZ) |
| Sydney Airport, NS (YQY/CYQY) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Eastern Provincial Flight 102 departed Moncton at 06:35 on a flight to Torbay with several intermediate stops. The Herald departed Halifax's runway 33 at 09:10 and was instructed to turn right and climb to FL130. While climbing through FL120 the underfloor fuselage skin ruptured. It opened up sufficiently to be contacted by one of the propellers. Disruption of the structure and subsequent progressive separation of the nose and front fuselage resulted in failures of the control levers. Separation of the remaining empennage and the aft section of the fuselage followed instantaneously. The debris came down in heavily wooded rolling terrain.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Failure of corroded skin area along the bottom centre line of the aircraft beneath stringer No.32 which resulted in structural failure of the fuselage and aerial disintegration."
Sources:
ICAO Circular 88-AN/74 (39-44)
Location
Images:
photo (c) Norm Sheppard; Sackville, NB; 28 December 2014
photo (c) Norm Sheppard
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