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Old 5th Mar 2012, 00:54
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The summarised report below is from Flight of 23/9/1955. G-AMOK was well known thereafter as having been well registered as it ran amok! If I remember correctly it was rebuilt with a modified cockpit eliminating the R/Os position amongst other things. As such it became an oddball and was sold as a singleton to LAV in Venezuela where it survived about 4 years longer than it's sister 701s which had been sold to Cambrian and VASP.


"WRONG RUNWAY" ACCIDENT REPORT
RESULTS of the public inquiry into the accident to B.E.A.
Viscount G-AMOK, which was badly damaged on January
16th when attempting to take-off from London Airport, were announced
last week by the M.T.C.A. Printed copies of the report
will be available from H.M.S.O. in a few weeks' time.
The accident occurred in bad visibility when the aircraft struck
a barrier on the stub of a disused runway which had not been in
use since June 1949. Minor injuries were suffered by the captain
and one passenger. The strip in question was parallel to the runway
in use at the time (15R).
The report found that the cause of accident was a mistake by the
commander of the aircraft, Capt. E. J. Waits, due to over-confidence,
in failing to make any reasonable check that the aircraft
was in fact lined up on 15R. It found also that lst/Off. R. S.
Barratt, who was in physical control of the Viscount, was equally
over-confident, though his responsibility was less than the captain's.
The report concluded with a number of recommendations
concerning the markings of runways and taxiways and the system
of controlling aircraft on the ground at L.A.P.
A B.E.A. statement said that the Corporation's own inquiry had
reached similar conclusions to those of the official report. Both
pilots had returned to flying duties after temporary suspension and
loss of seniority.
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