Date: | Thursday 14 March 1957 |
Time: | 13:46 |
Type: | Vickers 701 Viscount |
Owner/operator: | British European Airways - BEA |
Registration: | G-ALWE |
MSN: | 4 |
Year of manufacture: | 1952 |
Total airframe hrs: | 6902 hours |
Cycles: | 4553 flights |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 20 / Occupants: 20 |
Other fatalities: | 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Wythenshawe -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport (AMS/EHAM) |
Destination airport: | Manchester-Ringway Airport (MAN/EGCC) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Viscount G-ALWE (the first Viscount 701 type to be manufactured) approached Manchester-Ringway Airport following a flight from Amsterdam. After a GCA (Ground Control Approach) approach, the aircraft broke through the lowest clouds and the crew continued the approach visually. The approach was uneventful until it was about 1 mile short of the runway. The aircraft was seen to enter a shallow right descending turn with a steepening bank angle. The right wingtip touched the ground and the aircraft crashed into houses 85 yards further on. It appeared that the aileron became locked when the no. 2 flap unit of the starboard wing moved away from the trailing edge member following failure of a lug and bolt of the flap fitting.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The fracture, due to fatigue, of he 9/16 inch bolt holding the bottom of the No2 starboard flap unit."
Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest No.9, Circular 56-AN/51 (76-87)
Location
Images:
photo (c) RuthAS; Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC); 1953; (CC:by)
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