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![1959 Turkish Airlines Vickers Viscount [TC-SEV] Gatwick Crash Aftermath Footage](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pLaAlFAJbKg/hqdefault.jpg "1959 Turkish Airlines Vickers Viscount [TC-SEV] Gatwick Crash Aftermath Footage
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Accident Description: https://www.instagram.com/p/CoxFIjNvvZL/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
On ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ญ๐ณ, ๐ญ๐ต๐ฑ๐ต, a Turkish Airlines Vickers Viscount (Reg. TC-SEV) was on a special flight from Ankara to London via Rome with Adnan Menderes the Prime Minister of Turkey and a party of Turkish Government officials on board.
The plane left Rome at 13:02. TC-SEV called London Airways at 15:56 after passing Abbeville and was cleared by ATC to the Epsom Radio Range station, the holding point for London Airport. Because of poor visibility at destination London (Heathrow) Airport, the London Airport Commandant decided to inform the Turkish captain that he should divert to Gatwick. At 16:27 it left Epsom for Mayfield, the holding point for Gatwick. Over the Mayfield NDB at 4,000 feet the flight was instructed to steer a course of 280 and to descend to 2,000 feet. A further descent clearance was given to 1,500 feet. At 5 NM from touchdown, the plane affirmed that it could continue on the ILS.
TC-SEV was then asked to change to tower frequency and this request was acknowledged. This was the last communication with the plane. At a position of some 5 km from the runway threshold and 550 feet to the north of the approach path centre line, the plane contacted tops of trees 390 feet amsl at the edge of Jordans Wood. The plame began to disintegrate as it descended through the trees at an angle of about 6ยฐ from the horizontal until the wheels made contact with the ground. After rising again slightly the main part of the wreckage came to rest about 100 yards further on and then caught fire.
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The evidence is insufficient to establish the cause of the accident. There is no indication however that this can be associated either with a technical failure of the aircraft or with a failure of the ground services.")
