Registration / Serial:VP-YNE
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 748D Viscount
C/n (msn):102
Operator Titles:Central African Airways - CAA
Aircraft Name:RMA Mpika
City / Airport:London - Heathrow (EGLL / LHR)Map
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Photo Date:April 1958
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID:527134Submit Correction
View count: 420
Central African Airways replaced their Vikings on the Zambezi service from Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia to London, UK with Viscounts in the late 1950s. VP-YNE was one of them. On 9 August 1958 it came to grief on approach to Benghazi in Libya. 36 people died in the accident.
Registration / Serial:VP-YNE
Aircraft Version:Vickers 748D Viscount
C/n (msn):102
Operator Titles:Central African Airways - CAA
City / Airport:London - Heathrow (EGLL / LHR)Map
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Photo Date:April 1958
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Registration / Serial:VP-YNE
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 748D Viscount
C/n (msn):102
Operator Titles:Central African Airways - CAA
Aircraft Name:RMA Mpika
City / Airport:London - Heathrow (EGLL / LHR)Map
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Photo Date:April 1958
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID:527134Submit Correction
View count: 420
Central African Airways replaced their Vikings on the Zambezi service from Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia to London, UK with Viscounts in the late 1950s. VP-YNE was one of them. On 9 August 1958 it came to grief on approach to Benghazi in Libya. 36 people died in the accident.
Registration / Serial:VP-YNE
Aircraft Version:Vickers 748D Viscount
C/n (msn):102
Operator Titles:Central African Airways - CAA
City / Airport:London - Heathrow (EGLL / LHR)Map
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Photo Date:April 1958
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection