| Date: | Sunday 26 July 1970 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-7CF |
| Owner/operator: | ARCO Bermuda |
| Registration: | VR-BCT |
| MSN: | 44875/668 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1956 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Abidjan -
 Cote d'Ivoire
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Kinshasa (unknown airport) |
| Liverpool International Airport (LPL/EGGP) |
While on a three engine (no. 4 feathered) ferry flight, the aircraft passed over Abidjan at 14:00 at an altitude of FL60. At 14:34 the no. 3 engine exploded and fell from the aircraft six minutes later. A belly landing was made on a sandy area West of the Abidjan runway.
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Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 1 February 1958 | N733PA | Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) | 0 | Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport (AMS) |  |
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Images:
photo (c) Rolf Larsson; Stockholm-Bromma Airport (BMA); June 1969
photo (c) Kjell Nilsson; Stockholm-Bromma Airport (BMA); 23 June 1969
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