| Date: | Wednesday 27 August 1952 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Vickers 630 Viscount |
| Owner/operator: | UK Ministry of Supply |
| Registration: | G-AHRF |
| MSN: | 1 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1948 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 931 hours |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart 502 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Khartoum-Wadi Seidna Air Base -
 Sudan
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Khartoum-Wadi Seidna Air Base |
| Khartoum-Wadi Seidna Air Base |
The Vickers 630 Viscount prototype aircraft was being used in tropical climate tests in Khartoum. Following one of these test flights the right hand main gear leg collapsed. It appeared that the light alloy machined bracket securing the right hand main gear radius rod to the rear spar had failed and the bolt pinning the radius rod to the bracket was broken.
Sources:
Vickers Viscount Network
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