Operating Country

Operator

Manufacturer

Aircraft

Reg / Serial

BEA

Vickers

VC 1 Viking

G-AIVE

UK

(British European Airways)

(Vickers-Armstrongs)

(VC=Vickers Commercial)

Unless otherwise indicated, photos and information for article by James Towill.

 This article is reproduced here with the permission of the author.

Published in the Scottish Sunday Express on Sunday 10 June 2007.

Sunday Express article by Derek Lambie based on information
 supplied by James Towill and Dougie Martindale
 

Below: The remaining wreckage of Vickers Viking G-AIVE as it appears today, showing (superimposed) the image of another BEA Vickers Viking ('Valiant') of the late 1940's era.

Main photo: © 2007 James Towill

 Superimposed aircraft photo: © 2007 Sunday Express

 

Below: Ardrossan Academy pupils photographed at the tail of the wrecked Viking not long after the accident occurred in April 1948. Photo: © 1948 Alan McFarland

If you can provide any information on this  aircraft accident,  please contact James Towill and Dougie Martindale at Viking Crash Research Group

Left: Article on Vickers Viking G-AIVE  accident research project. (Original article researcher/author: James Towill)     Left: Inset from original Daily Express report (shown above)     Below: James Towill, who (together with Dougie Martindale) is preparing a book on this Vickers Viking. If you can provide any information regarding this Viking aircraft accident, please contact James and Dougie at the Viking Crash Research Group

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