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1950-1959


DATE AIRCRAFT OPERATOR REG. NOTES
28.01.51 Solent flying boat     Wing float separated/broken during taxiing at Marsaxlokk Harbour, leading to the aircraft capsizing. One fatality. Aircraft named “Star of Australia”, and was to take Maltese immigrants to Australia.
16/17.02.52 Viking Hunting Air Transport LTD G-AHPI c/n 142. Crashed Monte la Cintra, Sicily en route Nice to Malta. 20 casualties.
25.08.52 HP Hermes IV Airwork Ltd. G-ALDF Aircraft en route Malta – Blackbushe, UK, when it crashed off Trapani, Italy. 50 passengers and crew survived. Aircraft used serial WZ841 on trooping flights.
13.04.54 Avro York Scottish Airlines G-AMUM Damaged beyond repair whilst landing at Luqa.
23.01.56 HP Hermes Britavia   Undercarriage collapsed on landing. Aircraft was carrying 60 servicemen but no injuries reported.
18.02.56 Avro York Scottish Airlines G-ANSY Control tower informed captain of smoke emerging from one of the engines. Crew managed to take the aircraft up to 1,000 feet, but the York went into shallow dive, exploding on impact with the ground near the village of Zurrieq. Fifty fatalities, no survivors.
27.03.58   B.E.A.   Aircraft on a UK-Malta mail flight, went unserviceable at Nice, France.
20.05.58 Avro York Dan Air G-AMUT Badly damaged after failing to stop, overrunning runway 06. No fatalities/injuries.
04.06.58 V. Viscount 800     Aircraft was on a UK-Malta flight to pick up passengers. Diverted to an area 30 miles south-east of Nice, France to investigate two marine dye markers. Stayed on station for around 15 minutes until relived by a military aircraft.
22.10.58 Viscount 701C B.E.A. G-ANHC Aircraft inbound to Malta, was involved in a mid-air collision with an Italian AF F-86 near Naples. All passengers and crew killed.
18.02.59       An easterly gale winds disrupt air services to/from Malta.
07.06.59 DC-4 Lebanese Airlines   Landed at RAF Ta’ Qali on two engines, due to a fuel shortage on a Saudi Arabia to Tunis flight.
        
 
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