Date: | Monday 21 December 1959 |
Time: | 07:16 |
Type: | Vickers 785D Viscount |
Owner/operator: | Alitalia |
Registration: | I-LIZT |
MSN: | 378 |
Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Roma-Ciampino Airport (CIA) -
Italy
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Roma-Ciampino Airport (CIA/LIRA) |
Destination airport: | Roma-Ciampino Airport (CIA/LIRA) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The Viscount was being used for a semi-annual flight crew check involving a simulated two engines out emergency landing. The aircraft was approaching Ciampino runway 16R with engines no3 and 4 out when it suddenly went into a right bank, some 400 m short of the runway threshold. The Viscount struck the ground with the right wingtip and crashed.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident was attributed to a balked landing manoeuvre carried out below the speed limits for safe directional control of the aircraft during a critical situation that developed in the last phase of the landing in the course of a simulated emergency exercise with two power units inoperative (nos 3 nd 4) and two operative (nos. 1 and 2)."
Sources:
ICAO Circular 64-AN/58 (84-91)
Location
Images:
photo (c) Claudio Statuti; Roma-Ciampino Airport (CIA); 1958
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