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Prangster
17th Feb 2017, 19:28
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.
DaveReidUK
17th Feb 2017, 19:52
Neither the airline nor the accident description rings any bells at all. What are your sources?
renfrew
17th Feb 2017, 20:10
Only fuel starvation one I can think of..............
https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19800717-0
renfrew
17th Feb 2017, 20:26
The Ostend Viscount could have belonged to Channel Airways
barry lloyd
17th Feb 2017, 21:18
Prangster:
You're not thinking of this, are you?
https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19690220-0
DaveReidUK
17th Feb 2017, 21:25
The Ostend Viscount could have belonged to Channel Airways
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.
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.
Herod
18th Feb 2017, 16:28
That's an interesting photo in the link on post 5. I wouldn't have liked to be sitting in the centre section.
That's an interesting photo in the link on post 5. I wouldn't have liked to be sitting in the centre section.
Zero fatalities in a fairly full aircraft though. Although I'm sure that indeed none of us would like to have been sat there.
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.
Prangster
19th Feb 2017, 09:15
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'