| Date: | Wednesday 23 November 1988 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Vickers 807 Viscount |
| Owner/operator: | Gibraltar Airways |
| Registration: | G-BBVH |
| MSN: | 281 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1957 |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart 520 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 78 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Tangier Airport (TNG) -
 Morocco
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Gibraltar-North Front Airport (GIB/LXGB) |
| Tangier Airport (TNG/GMTT) |
The aircraft ran off the left side of runway 28 on landing, continued in a shallow channel before coming to rest 1165yds past the touchdown point. Aquaplaning is suspected since the landing took place during a heavy rainshower with wind at 60deg/24 kts.
Sources:
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 12 November 1958 | ZK-BRD | New Zealand National Airways Corporation (NAC) | 0 | Auckland-Whenuapai Airport |  |
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Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Gibraltar-North Front Airport (GIB); May 1986
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