Date:	Friday 26 November 1965
Time:
Type:	Vickers 806 Viscount
Owner/operator:	British European Airways - BEA
Registration:	G-APEY
MSN:	382
Year of manufacture:	1958
Engine model:	Rolls-Royce Dart 520
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 79
Aircraft damage:	Substantial, repaired
Category:	Accident
Location:	Jersey-States Airport, Channel Islands (JER) -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	London-Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL)
Destination airport:	Jersey-States Airport, Channel Islands (JER/EGJJ)

Narrative:
When the aircraft was 7 miles from touch-down, after a flight from London-Heathrow Airport, the captain was informed that the wind was 170°/25 kts., gusting to 30 kts. When 3 miles from touch-down the wind. was given as 170°/28 kts., dropping to 22 kts. on short final. The visibility was 6 km. in moderate rain. Because of the weather, and because the runway was wet, the touchdown on runway 09 was intentionally firm. Initially, the aircraft made a normal landing run down the middle of the runway but, towards the end of the run, the nose undercarriage slowly collapsed rearwards, the tips of No. 2 and No. 3 propellers struck the runway, and the aircraft came to rest in a nose-down attitude. Damage was confined to the nose undercarriage and bay, and to the tips of the propellers which had struck the runway; the passengers were disembarked normally.

Accidents to Aircraft - A United Kingdom Survey for the year ended 31st December 1965

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