Date: | Monday 14 July 1980 |
Time: | |
Type: | Vickers 745D Viscount |
Owner/operator: | Aerolineas Condor |
Registration: | HC-BHB |
MSN: | 205 |
Year of manufacture: | 1956 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Loja Airport (LOH) -
Ecuador
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Unknown |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Loja Airport (LOH/SELO) |
Narrative:The aircraft struck the raised lip of runway 06 during landing, causing the undercarriage to collapse. The flight crew was hampered by smoke originating from the burning of sugarcane stubble in adjacent fields.
The starboard propellers were damaged.
Sources:
aerospotter.blogspot.com/2022/12/el-viscount-del-parque.html Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Baltimore/Washington International Airport, MD (BWI); August 1976
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