Incident Overview
Date: Thursday 22 June 1967
Aircraft Type: Vickers 803 Viscount
Owner/operator: Aer Lingus
Registration Number: EI-AOF
Location: 3 km N of Ashbourne –
ÿ Ireland
Phase of Flight: Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Component Affected: AircraftAircraft
Investigating Agency: AAIUAAIU
Category: Accident
A Viscount aircraft crashed while on an IFR flight plan departing Dublin at 06:44 GMT for a pilot conversion training flight. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the aircraft entering a vertical dive from low altitude. The plane subsequently caught fire. The probable cause was an unintentional stall and incipient spin at a low altitude, resulting in recovery being impossible.A Viscount aircraft crashed while on an IFR flight plan departing Dublin at 06:44 GMT for a pilot conversion training flight. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the aircraft entering a vertical dive from low altitude. The plane subsequently caught fire. The probable cause was an unintentional stall and incipient spin at a low altitude, resulting in recovery being impossible.
Description
The Viscount had departed Dublin at 06:44 GMT for a pilot conversion training flight on an IFR flight plan. The instructor planned to spend 2 hours in a sector NW of Dublin, followed by practicing circuits and landings for one hour. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the aircraft entering a vertical dive from low altitude. The plane crashed and caught fire. PROBABLE CAUSE: “An unintentional stall and incipient spin at a low altitude from which recovery was not possible. There is not enough evidence to determine the circumstances leading to the stall and incipient spin but the behaviour of the aircraft in the final stages was such as to indicate that it was not under control of the flight instructor.”
Primary Cause
Unintentional stall and incipient spin at a low altitude from which recovery was not possible.Unintentional stall and incipient spin at a low altitude from which recovery was not possible.Share on:
