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The Vickers Viscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee , it entered service in 1953 and was the first turboprop-powered airliner.
The Vickers Viscount was a medium-range airliner driven by four turboprop engines. The type was designed and manufactured in the United Kingdom from 1948 to 1963. Prototypes
The aircraft was written off. [89] A Viscount of British Eagle. On 9 August 1968, British Eagle Flight 802 crashed on Bundesautobahn 9 near Langenbruck (Reichertshofen) killing all 48 people on board. The cause of the accident was a loss of electrical power in flight, leading to instruments giving incorrect readings and loss of control. [90]
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 .
MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750, a Vickers Viscount registered VH-RMQ, took off from Perth Airport at 08:36 am local time. On board were two pilots, two air hostesses and twenty-two passengers. [Note 1] The aircraft climbed to an altitude of 19,000 feet (5,800 m) for the 189-minute flight. [2] [4] [7]
1959 Gatwick Turkish Airlines Viscount crash; U. United Air Lines Flight 297; United Air Lines Flight 823
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.
United Airlines Flight 823 was a scheduled flight from Philadelphia International Airport, Pennsylvania, to Huntsville International Airport, Alabama, with 39 on board.On July 9, 1964, around 18:15 EST, the aircraft, a Vickers Viscount 745D, registration N7405, [2] crashed 2.25 mi (3.62 km) northeast of Parrottsville, Tennessee, after experiencing an uncontrollable fire on board, killing all ...