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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 ...
On 31 December 1968 a Vickers Viscount aircraft departed from Perth, Western Australia for a flight of 724 nautical miles (1341 km) to Port Hedland.The aircraft crashed 28 nautical miles (52 km) short of its destination with the loss of all twenty-six people on board.
Aer Lingus Flight 712 crashed en route from Cork to London on 24 March 1968, killing all 61 passengers and crew. The aircraft, a Vickers Viscount 803 named St. Phelim, crashed into the sea off Tuskar Rock, County Wexford. Although the investigation into the crash lasted two years, a cause was never determined.
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] Upon purchase it was registered as G-AFTN and named “City of Truro".
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.
In 1968 Air Ferry leased a pair of Vickers Viscount 800s. [1] By that time, it operated scheduled and non-scheduled services carrying passengers and their cars as well as cargo from Manchester, Bristol and London in addition to Manston. Summer 1968 was Air Ferry's last season of operations, and the airline ceased trading on 31 October 1968. [6]
They destroy eight passenger aircraft (a Vickers VC10, a Boeing 707-320C, two Sud Aviation Caravelle VINs, three de Havilland Comet 4Cs, and one Vickers Viscount) belonging to Middle East Airlines, four passenger aircraft (two Convair CV-990 Coronados and two Douglas DC-7s) belonging to Lebanese International Airways, and two cargo planes (a ...
A Vickers Viscount of Central African Airways, Air Rhodesia's predecessor, in 1957 Air Rhodesia was the country's national airline , established by the government on 1 September 1967 to succeed Central African Airways , which was dissolved at the end of that year.