UI Vickers 760D Viscount VR-AAV,

ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 332081

Date:	Friday 30 June 1967
Time:	15:30
Type:	Vickers 760D Viscount
Owner/operator:	Aden Airways
Registration:	VR-AAV
MSN:	187
Year of manufacture:	1957
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	UI
Location:	Aden International Airport (ADE) - Yemen
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	-
Departure airport:	-
Destination airport:	-

Narrative:
Viscount VR-AAV had been taken out of service for an engine change. When the service was completed the aircraft was placed in quarantine for 24 hours in case a bomb had been placed on board whilst it was in the hangar. At the time there was a both the National Liberation Front (the NLF) and the Front for the Liberation of South Yemen (FLOSY) where fighting for Yemen's independence from the United Kingdom. The airplane was parked on the apron when a bomb exploded. The Viscount caught fire and was damaged beyond repair as a result.

Sources:

Ronald Davison

Location

Images:

photo (c) Ronald Davison; Aden International Airport (ADE); 30 June 1967