Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:MacRobertson Miller Airlines - MMA
Aircraft Name:RMA Quininup
City / Airport:Perth (YPPH / PER)Map
Region / Country:Western Australia, Australia
Photo Date:13 September 1968 to 31 December 1968
Photo from:Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)
Photo ID:307895Submit Correction
View count: 782
Crashed on descent to Port Hedland on December 31, 1968 after the starboard wing failed. It led to the grounding all Australian Viscounts. Viscount 810s were cleared to fly again but the remaining Viscount 700s were grounded permanently. RMQ had been the second Australian Viscount, delivered in October 1954 as VH-TVB for TAA. VH-TVA and VH-TVC were also lost in fatal accidents, TVA in a training accident before entering service and TVC broke up in a storm in November 1961 while departing Sydney for Canberra when on lease to Ansett-ANA.
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:MacRobertson Miller Airlines - MMA
City / Airport:Perth (YPPH / PER)Map
Region / Country:Western Australia, Australia
Photo Date:13 September 1968 to 31 December 1968
Photo from:Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:MacRobertson Miller Airlines - MMA
Aircraft Name:RMA Quininup
City / Airport:Perth (YPPH / PER)Map
Region / Country:Western Australia, Australia
Photo Date:13 September 1968 to 31 December 1968
Photo from:Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)
Photo ID:307895Submit Correction
View count: 782
Crashed on descent to Port Hedland on December 31, 1968 after the starboard wing failed. It led to the grounding all Australian Viscounts. Viscount 810s were cleared to fly again but the remaining Viscount 700s were grounded permanently. RMQ had been the second Australian Viscount, delivered in October 1954 as VH-TVB for TAA. VH-TVA and VH-TVC were also lost in fatal accidents, TVA in a training accident before entering service and TVC broke up in a storm in November 1961 while departing Sydney for Canberra when on lease to Ansett-ANA.
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:MacRobertson Miller Airlines - MMA
City / Airport:Perth (YPPH / PER)Map
Region / Country:Western Australia, Australia
Photo Date:13 September 1968 to 31 December 1968
Photo from:Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)