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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.
On 22 December 1959, a VASP Vickers Viscount 827 registration PP-SRG while on approach to land at Rio de Janeiro-Galeão was involved in a mid-air collision with the Brazilian Air Force Fokker S-11 (T-21) registration FAB0742 in the vicinity of Manguinhos Airport. All 32 people on board the Viscount were killed, as were a further ten on the ground.
Austrian Airlines Flight 901 was a flight from Vienna, Austria to Moscow, USSR (now Russia) via Warsaw, Poland.On the night of 26 September 1960 the aircraft operating the flight, a Vickers Viscount, crashed near Moscow while on its approach to land, killing 31 of the 37 passengers and crew on board.
The aircraft was a Vickers Viscount 802, registration G-AOJA, built and delivered to BEA the previous year. [1] [2] It was the first 800 Series Viscount built and was used by the manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs for test and promotional flights prior to delivery.
The following is a list of past and present operators of the Vickers Viscount. Civil operators. ♠ Original operators 318975 Ontario Ltd. [1] 515489 Ontario Ltd [2]
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 ...
The 1962 LOT Vickers Viscount Warsaw crash occurred on 19 December 1962 when a Vickers Viscount 804, operated by LOT Polish Airlines on a flight from Brussels to Warsaw, crashed on landing. All passengers and crew died. The plane was returning from Brussels, and had a mid-way landing in Berlin from where it took off at 5:55 pm. While on ...