Accidents and Incidents Involving the Vickers Viscount - List of Accidents and Incidents Involving the Vickers Viscount (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: List of Accidents and Incidents Involving the Vickers Viscount, 1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick Crash, Aer Lingus Flight 712, Capital Airlines Flight 67, Capital Airlines Flight 20, Capital Airlines Flight 75, British European Airways Flight 411, Air Rhodesia Flight 827, British European Airways Flight 142, United Airlines Flight 823, South African Airways Flight 406, Saeta Flight 232, Cambrian Airways Liverpool Crash. Excerpt: Accident summary The 1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick crash was an air disaster that occurred on 17 February 1959, near London Gatwick Airport (IATA: LGW, ICAO: EGKK ). A Turkish Airlines Vickers Viscount Type 793 with registration TiSEV on an international charter flight from Esenbo a International Airport (IATA: ESB, ICAO: LTAC ) in Ankara, Turkey, to London Heathrow Airport (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL ), United Kingdom, carrying the Turkish prime minister and a party of government officials, crashed in a wood 3 miles (4.8 km) from the threshold of the runway during its final approach to land in extensive fog. Five of the eight crew and nine of the sixteen passengers died in the crash. The prime minister was among the ten survivors. Flight Ankara Esenbo a Int'l Airport Istanbul Atatrk Int'l Airport Rom Leonardo da Vinci Airport London Gatwick Airport Location of airports on the flight route Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, accompanied by a Turkish delegation, was on his way to the British capital to sign the London Agreement on the Cyprus issue with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Greek Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis, which gave the three sides the right to intervene in Cyprus in case peace was broken by any of the parties. The special flight departed from Ankara Esenbo a International Airport bound for London Heathrow Ai...