Vickers VC.1 Viking
type: Thing
type: Aircraft
label: فيكرز في سي 1 فايكنغ @ar
label: ビッカース ヴァイキング @ja
label: 維克斯VC.1維京 @zh
label: Vickers Viking @de
subject: Category:Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
subject: Category:Aircraft with retractable conventional landing gear
subject: Category:Mid-wing aircraft
subject: Category:1940s British airliners
subject: Category:Vickers aircraft
subject: Category:Aircraft first flown in 1945
prop name: de Havilland or Rotol constant-speed propellers
eng1 name: Bristol Hercules
designer: Rex Pierson
status: Retired
variants: Vickers Varsity
variants: Vickers Valetta
range note: at
max speed note: at
similar aircraft: * Douglas DC-3
event: G-AHPN operated by British European Airways crashed during a Ground Control Approach landing in bad visibility at London Northolt airport, England. The pilot failed to overshoot and 25 passengers and three crew died. It was subsequently recommended that it be an offence for aircraft to go below a minimum height when ground visibility was low.
event: OY-DLU operated by Det Danske Luftfartselskab crashed into the sea off Copenhagen, Denmark, with the loss of all 27 occupants.
event: British European Airways Flight S200P crashed on approach to Glasgow-Renfrew Airport. No one was killed but 14 were injured.right|thumb|Wreckage of G-AIVE at the crash site of British European Airways Flight S200P, photographed in situ in 2007
event: G-AHPM operated by Cunard Eagle Airways crashed into a mountainside near Holta on approach to Stavanger Airport, Sola in Norway with the loss of all 39 occupants. The Norwegian report on the incident concluded that the pilot was off-course for unknown reasons. The 50th anniversary was marked by a book published in summer 2011, The Lanfranc Boys by Rosalind Jones, sister of Quentin Green, one of the victims.
event: G-AHPI operated by Hunting Air Travel flew into the La Cinta mountain range, Italy, with the loss of all 31 occupants.
event: G-AJDL operated by British European Airways crashed on approach at Belfast-Nutts Corner Airport, Northern Ireland, three crew and 24 passengers died.
event: G-AIVG operated by British European Airways crashed on take-off at Le Bourget-Paris, France, four crew and 30 passengers injured but survived.
event: F-BJER operated by Airnautic crashed into a mountain in the Pyrenees with the loss of all 40 occupants, the worst Viking accident.
event: G-AJBO operated by Eagle Aviation crashed after engine failure near Blackbushe Airport, England, five crew and 29 passengers died.
event: G-AIVP operated by British European Airways collided with a Soviet Yak-3 near Berlin, 15 killed.
event: G-AIJE operated by Independent Air Travel crashed into a house as the flight crew were trying to return to London Heathrow Airport after reporting engine problems. All three crew died and four on the ground also died.
ref: Vickers Aircraft since 1908
manufacturer: Vickers-Armstrongs
prime units?: imp
primary user: British European Airways
first flight: 1945-06-22
more performance: *Take-off distance to 50 ft : * Landing distance from 50 ft :
type: Airliner
name: VC.1 Viking
description: zweimotoriges Propeller-Verkehrsflugzeug @de
description: avion de ligne bimoteur à hélices @fr
description: 1945 Vickers-Armstrong @nl
description: tvåmotorigt passagerarflygplan med kolvmotorer @sv
description: British airliner with 2 piston engines, 1945
description: aereo di linea Vickers-Armstrongs @it
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wiki page external link: http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1959/1959%20-%201877.html
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wiki page external link: http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1945/1945%20-%201005.html
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