Airplane Crash - Bordeaux, France 05/08/1951
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Bordeaux, France
| Date | 05/08/1951 |
| Location | Bordeaux, France |
| Operator | Hunting Air Travel |
| Route | Bordeaux - Bovingdon |
| Type | Vickers 639 Viking 1 |
| Registration | G-AHPD |
| Cn/In | 134 |
| Aboard | 32 |
| Fatalities | 2 |
| Ground | 0 |
| Summary | No. 1 engine failed shortly after taking off. Altitude could not be maintained and an emergency belly landing was made in a field. The disconnecting of the articulated control rod of the propeller governor due to the lack of a split pin on the governor spindle and to the nut of the ball-joint of the control spindle having been unscrewed by force. |
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