Mists of time
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Mists of time
From the memory banks (mid 1960's) I hope. Place Ostend. Aircraft Viscount. Carrier Channel Island Airlines? If so does anyone have their fleet details please. I'm trying to tie a specific aircraft that may have been in their fleet to a fuel starvation crash at East midlands Airport many years later.
Only fuel starvation one I can think of..............
https://aviation-safety.net/database...?id=19800717-0
https://aviation-safety.net/database...?id=19800717-0
Yes, it could well have been.
But no Viscounts, whether ex-Channel or otherwise, have crashed at EMA due to fuel exhaustion.
The only Viscount crash there was a BMA example in 1969, which doesn't fit either the circumstances or the timeframe.
But no Viscounts, whether ex-Channel or otherwise, have crashed at EMA due to fuel exhaustion.
The only Viscount crash there was a BMA example in 1969, which doesn't fit either the circumstances or the timeframe.
Alidair, operators of the Viscount in the Exeter fuel starvation, were based at East Midlands, so may be felt to have a connection.
G-ARBY, the aircraft involved, had spent the first half of the 1960s with British United (Channel Islands) Airways. Although they were not commonly at Ostend.
G-ARBY, the aircraft involved, had spent the first half of the 1960s with British United (Channel Islands) Airways. Although they were not commonly at Ostend.
That's an interesting photo in the link on post 5. I wouldn't have liked to be sitting in the centre section.
Reminds me of photos of the De Havilland Albatross from the late 1930s, wooden fuselage, which during trials snapped clean in two on landing. Quick bit of carpentry, and on they went.
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Mists of time
Thanks folks it was the Ottery St Mary prang of a Viscpunt out of Santander. Both aircraft and bowser had faulty fuel measurement systems and it took of showing full tanks when it was in fact 2000lb light. It was the same airframe I'd flown in from Ostend to Manston. Just shows how the memory fades hench 'mists of time'
