Airplane Crash - Jeuk, Belgium 08/20/1965
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Jeuk, Belgium
Date | 08/20/1965 |
Time | 13:08 |
Location | Jeuk, Belgium |
Operator | LOT Polish Airlines |
Route | Lille - Wroclaw |
Type | Vickers 804 Viscount |
Registration | SP-LVA |
Cn/In | 249 |
Aboard | 4 |
Fatalities | 4 |
Ground | 0 |
Summary | After making a request to change course to avoid heavy weather the positioning flight suddenly descended and crashed. The overall atmosphericonditions in the vicinity of Jeuk and the circumstances of the accident were such that it was assumed that the pilot lost control of the aircraft when entering a cumulonimbus cloud. |
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