slide by Holger Wulff. - An early Fokker 27, which started its life with Aer Lingus in 1959 and which was lost during an emergency landing in Burkina Faso in 1991. In this 1983 slide scan, the aircraft was operated by the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO and had just been impounded at Athens for illegally using the registration from New Zealand. The PLO solved the problem, a Tunisian reg (TS-LVC) and later one of the Yemen Air Force (YAF202) were used.

from my collection, photographer unknwon, delivered to Aer Lingus late 1959 as EI AKG, sold to NAC National Airways Corporation Mar 1966 as ZK-NAB, left New Zealand Sep 1983 to serve Tunisavia as TS-LVC, a year later to Maldives International Airlines as 8Q-CA007, reregd. 8Q-PNA in 1985. Sold to Sudan as ST-EVF in Apr 1986 and entered operation for Sudan Air Force as »866« for only seven months before being sold to Air Bissau as J5-GBB, crashed and w/o near Dori Airport Burkina Faso in mid-August 1991

Sold in Tunisia as TS-LVC in 1983