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1959 - 0409.PDF
202 FLIGHT AIR COMMERCE . . . MORE ACCIDENT STATISTICS T^HE tabulated list of 1958 airline accidents published in the•*• January 16 issue of Flight has brought a number of requests from operators, authorities and others for a comparable list of fatalaccidents which occurred in 1957, and we have accordingly com- piled the table below. Relating to the world's scheduled and non-scheduled airlines, it is based on all the information available to us but does not, of course, claim to be in any way official. TheI.C.A.O. digest of accidents for 1957 is yet to be published. Month January February March April May June July August September October November December Date 7 11 19 23 23 29 1 2 9 13 14 19 7 8 10 15 20 1 2 5 9 13 13 14 18 22 23 25 27 1 16 25 11 15 16 20 30 1 4 15 18 18 27 1 3 23 28 29 4 9 15 15 t A.IO 21 8 23 Airline American LADE PanAm LANICA Vestlandske SAG ETA Northeast Alaska AviancaI.A.C. B.E.A. L.A.B. Varig Air France REAL TAMSA Air France Eagle Wideroes I.A.C.Aviaco U.S. Overseas LADE L.O.T. Swissair Capital Pac. West SAMSA Wien Alaska P.I.A. K.L.M. Western Maritime Cen. Aeroflot Varig IndamerKroonduif I.A.C. Avensa Northeast REAL Ellis B.E.A. Pac. West L.I.A. B.E.A. Iberia TAMSA TAROM PanAm Aquila Aviaco Kroonduif SAFEA-Argentinas Scottish Nationality U.S. Argentina U.S. Nicaragua Norway France U.S. U.S. ColombiaIndia U.K. Bolivia Brazil France Brazil Mexico France U.K. Norway India Spain U.S. Argentina Poland Switzerland U.S. Canada Colombia U.S. Pakistan Netherlands U.S. Canada U.S.S.R. Brazil India Dutch India Venezuela U.S. Brazil U.S. U.K. Venezuela Lebanon U.K.Spain Mexico Rumania U.S. U.K. Spain Netherlands New ZealandArgentina U.K. Aircraft CV.240 Viking DC-3 DC-3 Seabee Armagnac DC-6A DC-4 DC-3 DC-3 Viscount DC-3 C-46 DC-3 DC-3 Liberator L.1049 - Viking Cessna 170 DC-3 BR-170 DC-4 Viking 11-14 DC-3 DC-3 DC-3 C-46 Norseman DC-3 L.1049 CV.240 DC-4 11-14 L.1049 DC-3 Twin-Pioneer DC-3 DC-3 DC-3 CV.240 Cessna 180 Heron Stranraer C-46 Viscount DC-3 Fairchild Pkt. Stratocruiser Solent Heron Beaver BR-170DC-4 York Fatal Pass. 1 6 13 2 1 20 2 12 15 16 35 27 22 1 28 2 32 11 9 (incl. 12 1 20 47 1 73 18 5— 4 8 — 2 1 23 2 17 — 1 36 36 2 41 2 55 — ities Crew _ 5 1 3 _ - • 1 3 3 2 5 3 5 5 4 3 5 1 1 5 2 5 crew) 9 3 2 2 - 4 8 1 5 5 1 3 2 3 5 2 1 1 2 4 4 5 4 3 3 8 8 2 ^2 6 4 Location Tulsa, Oklahoma Buenos Aires Idlewild Nicaragua Baroen Orly La Guardia Washington CaliNew Delhi Manchester Bolivia Rio Grande do Sul Biskra, Algeria Rio de Janeiro Merida Iran Turkish border Blackbushe Norway AssamMadrid Narsarssuak Buenos Aires Moscow Lake Constance Maryland Port Hardy, B.C. Medellin Alaska Bay of Bengal Biak Mojave Desert Quebec Copenhagen Dominica AssamNew Guinea Calcutta Trujillo New Bedford MontevideoAlaska Scotland B.C. Beirut Belfast Madrid Campeche Moscow In Pacific I.O.W. Palma ^1 ***f r^ninDn Christchurch Bolivar Essex Circumstances Approach in low cloud Take-off Test flight In mountains Ambulance flight Instrument landing Take-off in storm In mountainsTraining flight Flap failed on approach In mountains Engine fire Take-off engine failure Engine unserviceable Obstruction on take-off Pass, sucked through burst window Take-off engine failure Freight service - r;. .Approach stall .'; . r ; Freight service In mountains during storm In violent storm Training flight Training flightTake-off In mountains In storm Take-off engine fire Explosion, victim blown out In storm Struck chimney in fog approach Engine failure ••>•*• - Freight service . •Instruction flight Struck on runway by landing Hermes Instrument flying off course in storm Hit trees during instrument approach In fogLost control, ditched in lake Ambulance service On take-off Take-off engine failure • On approach Hit mountain Freight service : On landing Fire Engine fire, struck cliff Hit mountain at night Wing broke in flight In severe storm On instrument approach PHEASANTS AIRBORNE A FREIGHT charter of an unusual nature was recently under-taken by Derby Airways. A specially modified DC-3, G-ANTD, left Elmdon Airport for Copenhagen to bring back2,100 live pheasants for the charterer—Warwickshire Pheasan- tries, of PaUton, near Rugby. Travelling on the flight was Mr. E. F. Castle, head gamekeeperat the pheasantries. At Copenhagen he supervised the transfer of the birds into hampers which were stowed and secured aboardthe aircraft. Only a few hours before, the birds had been flying wild in the Danish woods. Air. Castle explained, "We are buying Danish pheasants because of heavy losses over the past twohatching seasons and also because the Danish ringneck hen pheasant is particularly suitable for mating with the blackleg, theChinese and the Manchurian strains for which we are inter- nationally known." The advantage of air charter for this valuable cargo (it was worthabout £4,000) reduced to about 12 hours the time during which the birds were confined to hampers. Special arrangements by theMinistry of Agriculture and Fisheries and by H.M. Customs resulted in the immediate unloading of the pheasants on arrival Mr. E. F. Castle—see news-story above—examines one of his 2,100 pheasants in transit. (Right) The birds leave Elmdon by truck
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