1958 Independent Air Travel Vickers Viking crash
1958 aviation accident
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On 2 September 1958, an Independent Air Travel Vickers VC.1 Viking (registration G-AIJE), with three crew members aboard and loaded with two Bristol Proteus turboprop engines, crashed after taking off from London Heathrow Airport, en route to Tel Aviv via Nice, Brindisi and Athens.
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