List of accidents and incidents involving the Vickers VC.1 Viking

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The Vickers VC.1 Viking was a British twin-engine short-range airliner derived from the Vickers Wellington bomber and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited at Brooklands near Weybridge in Surrey. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Viking was an important airliner with British and several foreign airlines pending the development of turboprop aircraft like the Viscount.

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Of the 163 aircraft built 55 aircraft were lost in accidents between 1946 and 1965 with a total of 343 fatalities. The highest number of fatalities (40) occurred in the 11 September 1963 crash of F-BJER of Airnautic. [1]

Below is a list of accidents and incidents involving the Vickers VC.1 Viking, by date:

1940s

1950s

1960s

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  1. Ranter, Harro. "Aviation Safety Network > ASN Aviation Safety Database > Type index > ASN Aviation Safety Database results". aviation-safety.net.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 Eastwood and Roach 1991, pp. 293–299.
  3. 1 2 Bernard 1975, pp. 13–28
  4. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Vickers 632 Viking 1B VT-CLY Bombay-Santacruz Airport (BOM)". aviation-safety.net.
  5. Andrews and Morgan 1988, pp. 404, 533.
  6. C.I.D. Men Check Bomb-Wrecked Viking (1950) from British Pathé ( Record No:1462.28 ) at YouTube
  7. "Captain Ian Harvey". The Daily Telegraph . 27 July 2004. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  8. La corta vida de un Viking, Roll Out website, 2011 (accessed 2019-02-16)
  9. "Accident Report" ASN
  10. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Vickers 610 Viking 1B F-BJER Pic de la Roquette". aviation-safety.net.

Bibliography

  • Andrews, C.F. and E.B. Morgan. Vickers Aircraft since 1908. London: Putnam, 1988. ISBN   0-85177-815-1.
  • Bernard, Martin. The Viking, Valetta and Varsity. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1975. ISBN   0-85130-038-3.
  • Eastwood, Tony and John Roach. Piston Engine Airliner Production List. West Drayton, UK: The Aviation Hobby Shop, 1991. ISBN   0-907178-37-5.