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Pics: Viscount Hits Liverpool Terminal

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Interesting pics of a Cambrian Airways Viscount hitting the terminal in Liverpool.
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Cheers Brian

There are lots of pics of that incident around but I've not seen those particular shots before :)
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Pardon

Would you have any Grey Poupon.

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:lol: :lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_pGT8Q_tjk Anywho, can you imagine how helpless those two engineers must have felt rolling straight toward that gate with no way to stop? :worried:

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Not the only time

It happene to BEA's G-AMNY at malta wrting it noff and G-AVJB of BMA has the same prob AT GCI and hit a GPU that had it not been there, would have collided with a parked BEA Viscount.

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http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... 19600105-0

http://www.vickersviscount.net/Pages_Ph ... Large.aspx
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