| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | May 08, 1951 |
| Time: | 1412 |
| Location: | Bordeaux, France |
| Operator: | Hunting Air Travel |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | Gibraltar - Bordeaux - Bovingdon |
| AC Type: | Vickers 639 Viking 1 |
| Registration: | G-AHPD |
| cn / ln: | 134 |
| Aboard: | 32 (passengers:27 crew:5) |
| Fatalities: | 2 (passengers:0 crew:2) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | No. 1 engine failed shortly after taking off. Altitude could not be maintained and an emergency belly landing was made in a field. The disconnecting of the articulated control rod of the propeller governor due to the lack of a split pin on the governor spindle and to the nut of the ball-joint of the control spindle having been unscrewed by force. |
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