ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328526
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| Date: | Sunday 19 August 1979 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing 707-123B |
| Owner/operator: | Cyprus Airways |
| Registration: | 5B-DAM |
| MSN: | 17628/7 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D-1-MC6 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 66 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Bahrain International Airport (BAH) -
 Bahrain
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | |
| Bahrain International Airport (BAH/OBBI) |
The aircraft bounced while landing on runway 30 and touched down again nosegear first. The nosegear collapsed and the aircraft veered to the side of the runway. The plane came to rest 15 feet right of the centerline.
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Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; London-Heathrow Airport (LHR); May 1979
photo (c) Dietrich Eggert; London-Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL)
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