Date:	Monday 9 September 1963
Time:	13:49
Type:	Vickers 806 Viscount
Owner/operator:	British European Airways - BEA
Registration:	G-AOJC
MSN:	152
Year of manufacture:	1956
Engine model:	Rolls-Royce Dart 510
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 34
Aircraft damage:	Substantial, repaired
Category:	Accident
Location:	Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA) -   Switzerland
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	London Airport (LHR/EGLL)
Destination airport:	Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA/LSGG)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
During the flight two screws were noticed to be missing from the flap beam fairing between the inner and middle flaps on the port wing. As a precaution it was decided to make a flapless landing at Geneva. The touchdown was smooth, on the mainwheels, but the nosewheels and axle broke off because of a material fracture when the nosewheels touched the runway. The aircraft continued straight down the runway, with the stub of the leg in contact with the ground. When the speed had dropped to about 30 knots, the aircraft swung to port on to a taxiway and stopped just clear of the runway. A small fire in the nosewheel bay was quickly put out by the airport fire service.

Conclusions: "The Commission arrived unanimously at the following conclusion : The accident was due to the facture of a part of the nose undercarriage structure during a landing made without flaps, probably subject to the accompanying influence of local weakening of the fractured part."

Survey of accidents to aircraft in the United Kingdom 1963 / CAA
ICAO Digest 15-I (Circular 78)

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