Date: | Tuesday 8 March 1960 |
Time: | |
Type: | Handley Page HP.81 Hermes IVA |
Owner/operator: | Skyways |
Registration: | G-ALDH |
MSN: | HP.81/9 |
Year of manufacture: | 1950 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | London Airport (LHR) -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Unknown |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | London Airport (LHR/EGLL) |
Narrative:The starboard main gear leg collapsed during landing rollout at London. It appeared that the failure resulted from a fracture of the radius rod attachment lugs on the main undercarriage leg casing.
Sources:
Survey of accidents to aircraft in the United Kingdom 1960 / CAA
Air Pictorial Oct. 1965, p.371
Location
Images:
![](/photos/wiki/1960/19600308_hphm_G-ALDH_12235.jpg)
photo (c) Graham Palmer; Nicosia Airport (NIC/LCNC); 1954
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