| Date: | Tuesday 28 July 1959 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Vickers 614 Viking 1 |
| Owner/operator: | East Anglian Flying Services |
| Registration: | G-AHPH |
| MSN: | 141 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1946 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 39 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Southend Municipal Airport (SEN) -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | |
| Southend Municipal Airport (SEN/EGMC) |
The right hand main gear didn't show a green ('down and locked') light on approach to Southend. The emergency gear extension system didn't work, so a landing was attempted on the grass parallel to the runway. The main gear leg collapsed and the Viking swung to the right before coming to rest.
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| 20 August 1955 | VP-YIR | Central African Airways - CAA | 0 | Nairobi-Eastleigh Airport |  |
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