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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 November 2024. British four-engined medium-range turboprop airliner, 1948 Viscount Cambrian Airways Vickers Viscount General information Type Turboprop airliner National origin United Kingdom Manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs Status Retired Primary users British European Airways Capital Airlines Trans ...
The Flight 825 aircraft was a Vickers Viscount 782D, a British-made turboprop aircraft with two engines on each wing. It was named the Hunyani after the river of the same name , which flowed between Lake Kariba and the Rhodesian capital Salisbury .
Air Rhodesia Flight 827, operated by Vickers Viscount VP-YND 'Umniati' was a scheduled civilian flight between Kariba and the capital, Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), that was shot down soon after takeoff on 12 February 1979 by Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) guerrillas using a Strela 2 missile.
The first production version, 1,381 hp (1,030 kW) engines, 287 built, the "D" suffix was used for aircraft powered by the 1,576 hp (1,175 kW) Dart 510 engines. Type 701 Production aircraft for British European Airways (BEA), the same as the prototype 700 but as in all production aircraft the engines were moved 18 inches outboard to reduce cabin ...
The aircraft operating the flight was a Vickers Viscount, Makers Serial Number (MSN) 394. It was built in 1958 for Misrair, the Egyptian airline, and sold to British Eagle International Airlines on September 3, 1965. [3]
The Viscount was also operated by corporate operators particularly in the United States, the following bought the aircraft new: Canadian Department of Transport ♠ - One Type 737 delivered in March 1955. [31] was followed by a Type 797 in 1957 [32] Iranian Government ♠ - One Type 839 delivered in May 1961
The aircraft was a Vickers Viscount 803 which flew under tail-number EI-AOM and had been in service since 1957 with a total of 18,806 lifetime flight hours. [6] Aer Lingus operated approximately 20 Viscount aircraft in the 1950s and 1960s, of which two others were involved in serious incidents.
The wing of the Vickers Viscount used a single main spar made up of a centre section in the fuselage, two inner sections and two outer sections. The main spar comprised an upper boom, a shear web and a lower boom. The aircraft was designed and type-certificated to the principle of a safe-life. Before a component reaches its safe-life it must be ...