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Date: | Sunday 26 July 1970 |
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Type: | Douglas DC-7CF |
Owner/operator: | ARCO Bermuda |
Registration: | VR-BCT |
MSN: | 44875/668 |
Year of manufacture: | 1956 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Abidjan -
Cote d'Ivoire
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
Departure airport: | Kinshasa (unknown airport) |
Destination airport: | Liverpool International Airport (LPL/EGGP) |
Narrative:While on a three engine (no. 4 feathered) ferry flight, the aircraft passed over Abidjan at 14:00 at an altitude of FL60. At 14:34 the no. 3 engine exploded and fell from the aircraft six minutes later. A belly landing was made on a sandy area West of the Abidjan runway.
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History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
1 February 1958 |
N733PA |
Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) |
0 |
Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport (AMS) |
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w/o |
Images:
photo (c) Rolf Larsson; Stockholm-Bromma Airport (BMA); June 1969
photo (c) Kjell Nilsson; Stockholm-Bromma Airport (BMA); 23 June 1969
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