| Date: | Wednesday 7 October 1970 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4 |
| Owner/operator: | Dan-Air Services |
| Registration: | G-APDL |
| MSN: | 6413 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1959 |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Avon 524 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Newcastle Airport (NCL) -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT) |
| Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT) |
Damaged beyond repair after a wheels up landing.
PROBABLE CAUSE: The crew omitted to carry out the pre-landing checks while practicing a flapless landing.
Sources:
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 December 1959 | G-APDL | British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC | 0 | Roma-Ciampino Airport (CIA) |  |
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Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Newcastle Airport (NCL); June 1971
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