Date: | Friday 26 November 1965 |
Time: | |
Type: | Vickers 806 Viscount |
Owner/operator: | British European Airways - BEA |
Registration: | G-APEY |
MSN: | 382 |
Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart 520 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 79 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Jersey-States Airport, Channel Islands (JER) -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | London-Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) |
Destination airport: | Jersey-States Airport, Channel Islands (JER/EGJJ) |
Narrative:When the aircraft was 7 miles from touch-down, after a flight from London-Heathrow Airport, the captain was informed that the wind was 170°/25 kts., gusting to 30 kts. When 3 miles from touch-down the wind. was given as 170°/28 kts., dropping to 22 kts. on short final. The visibility was 6 km. in moderate rain. Because of the weather, and because the runway was wet, the touchdown on runway 09 was intentionally firm. Initially, the aircraft made a normal landing run down the middle of the runway but, towards the end of the run, the nose undercarriage slowly collapsed rearwards, the tips of No. 2 and No. 3 propellers struck the runway, and the aircraft came to rest in a nose-down attitude. Damage was confined to the nose undercarriage and bay, and to the tips of the propellers which had struck the runway; the passengers were disembarked normally.
Sources:
Accidents to Aircraft - A United Kingdom Survey for the year ended 31st December 1965
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