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1950 Heathrow BEA Vickers Viking accident
The 1950 Heathrow BEA Viking accident was the crash of a Vickers Viking operated by British European Airways (BEA) on a scheduled flight between Paris and London's Northolt airport. The aircraft crashed at London Airport in thick fog on 31 October 1950, killing 28 of the 30 passengers and crew on board.
==Accident==
At 1839 hrs on the evening of the accident, a Vickers VC.1 Viking twin-engined airliner of BEA (registered G-AHPN and named ''Lord St Vincent'') took off from Le Bourget Airport in Paris on a scheduled flight to Northolt airport, London with a crew of four and 26 passengers.〔Andrews and Morgan 1988, p. 531.〕〔("ASN Aircraft accident Vickers 610 Viking 1B G-AHPN London Airport" ). ''Aviation Safety Network'', 2002. Retrieved 20 July 2010.〕 A weather forecast obtained before the flight took off had warned of poor visibility, and about 45 minutes after departure as the aircraft neared London, British air traffic control (ATC) informed the pilot that fog had reduced the visibility at Northolt to . On receiving this information, the pilot announced that he would attempt to land at London Airport instead. Although visibility at London Airport was only , it had the facilities for a Ground-controlled approach (GCA, i.e. a "talkdown" by radar operators). The pilot told ATC that if he could not safely land at London Airport, he would divert to Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire or Manston Airport in Kent.〔''Flight'' 19 October 1951, p. 518.〕〔
The aircraft carried out what appeared to be a normal GCA, reaching the decision height of at about from the end of the runway. Shortly after reaching this point the pilot announced over the radio, ''I am overshooting''〔 (aborting the landing attempt and carrying out a go-around), but a few seconds later the aircraft struck the runway and skidded along it for before regaining the air. With both propellers damaged by the initial contact with the ground, it finally crashed approximately further along the runway, the starboard wing being torn off and the aircraft bursting into flames as it came to rest next to a store of drain-pipes.〔〔 The thick fog hindered rescue attempts and it took the fire and rescue teams 16 to 17 minutes to find the crashed aircraft.〔 Of the 30 people on board there were only two survivors, a stewardess and a passenger; both had been seated near the tail.〔
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