Date: | Friday 8 October 1982 |
Time: | 18:00 |
Type: | Vickers 828 Viscount |
Owner/operator: | SAN Ecuador - Servicios Aéreos Nacionales |
Registration: | HC-ATV |
MSN: | 458 |
Year of manufacture: | 1962 |
Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart 525 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Cuenca Airport (CUE) -
Ecuador
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Guayaquil-Simon Bolivar Airport (GYE/SEGU) |
Destination airport: | Cuenca Airport (CUE/SECU) |
Narrative:The Vickers 828 Viscount, HC-ATV, suffered a runway excursion accident after landing on wet runway at Cuenca Airport, Ecuador.
The starboard undercarriage dug into the soft ground and the starboard wing hit the ground damaging both starboard propellers and shockloading the Dart engines and causing considerable structural damage.
Sources:
BAAA-ACRO
Roberto Varhola (E-mail 18 mar 2017)
Vickers Viscount Network (vickersviscount.net) Images:
photo (c) John Smith; East Midlands Airport (EMA); 12 October 1978
photo (c) Alexandmc; Quito or Cuenca
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