Accident Convair CV-640 HB-IMM,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 330139
 

Date:Tuesday 17 July 1973
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic CVLT model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Convair CV-640
Owner/operator:SA de Transport Aérien - SATA
Registration: HB-IMM
MSN: 412
Year of manufacture:1957
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 60
Aircraft damage: Destroyed, written off
Category:Accident
Location:Tromsø/Langnes Airport (TOS) -   Norway
Phase: Landing
Nature:Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH)
Destination airport:Tromsø/Langnes Airport (TOS/ENTC)
Narrative:
Landed heavily, bounced, and landed back nose-down. The landing gear partly collapsed. The aircraft came to rest 15 m short of the runway end.

Sources:

Tribune - Le Matin 18-7-1973

Location

Images:


photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA); January 1973


photo (c) John A May; London-Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL)

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