Date:	Thursday 7 January 1960
Time:
Type:	Vickers 802 Viscount
Owner/operator:	British European Airways - BEA
Registration:	G-AOHU
MSN:	169
Year of manufacture:	1957
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 59
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	London Airport (LHR) -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Dublin Airport (DUB/EIDW)
Destination airport:	London Airport (LHR/EGLL)

Narrative:
The Viscount landed at London Airport in fog. After touchdown the nose gear failed. The plane skidded some 500yds down the runway before coming to rest. A fire erupted in the nose section of the plane and almost destroyed the entire fuselage.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The failure of Air Traffic Control to notify the captain of a critical deterioration in runway Visual Range during his final approach. In consequence he attempted to land in a visibility which gave him insufficient visual reference with the result that the nosewheels contacted the runway before the mainwheels thereby overstressing the nose wheel unit and fracturing its attachments."

Survey of accidents to aircraft in the United Kingdom 1960 / CAA

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