Incident Overview
Date: Monday 21 December 1959
Aircraft Type: Vickers 785D Viscount
Owner/operator: Alitalia
Registration Number: I-LIZT
Location: Roma-Ciampino Airport (CIA) –
ÿ Italy
Phase of Flight: Approach
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Component Affected: Aircraft wingtipAircraft wingtip
Category: Accident
A Viscount aircraft, during a simulated emergency landing exercise, experienced a sudden right bank and crash after approaching Ciampino runway 16R with engines 3 and 4 out. The aircraft struck the ground with the right wingtip.A Viscount aircraft, during a simulated emergency landing exercise, experienced a sudden right bank and crash after approaching Ciampino runway 16R with engines 3 and 4 out. The aircraft struck the ground with the right wingtip.
Description
The Viscount was being used for a semi-annual flight crew check involving a simulated two engines out emergency landing. The aircraft was approaching Ciampino runway 16R with engines no3 and 4 out when it suddenly went into a right bank, some 400 m short of the runway threshold. The Viscount struck the ground with the right wingtip and crashed. PROBABLE CAUSE: “The accident was attributed to a balked landing manoeuvre carried out below the speed limits for safe directional control of the aircraft during a critical situation that developed in the last phase of the landing in the course of a simulated emergency exercise with two power units inoperative (nos 3 nd 4) and two operative (nos. 1 and 2).”
Primary Cause
Balked landing manoeuvre initiated during a critical situation involving two power units being unavailable (nos 3 and 4) and two operational (nos 1 and 2) during the final phase of the landing.Balked landing manoeuvre initiated during a critical situation involving two power units being unavailable (nos 3 and 4) and two operational (nos 1 and 2) during the final phase of the landing.Share on:
