September 1958 to November 1963
Kuwait Airways
G-APOW - c/n 72 - a V.702 series Viscount
United Kingdom registered
18 September 1958
Dry leased from BOAC Associated Companies Ltd and delivered from London Airport (Heathrow), Middlesex, England to Kuwait.
It was initially delivered in a modified BOAC livery.
8 May 1959
After leaving the stand at Santa Cruz Airport, Bombay, India at 1705Z Captain Thomas Waller and First Officer Wilkinson carried out the pre-flight checks with no reported snags.
After taking off they noticed that the cabin pressure safety valve was not closing. At about 2,000 feet the First Officer went back into the cabin to close it manually.
Soon after, all the lights started to dim and after a couple of minutes there was just a dim glow.
The flight crew then noticed that the generators were showing off-line and a generator failure light was illuminated.
All attempts to get the generators on-line failed so the crew elected to return to Bombay as they had no electrical instruments, radios or lights.
A flapless landing was completed without incident and they returned to the stand.
They discussed the event and went through what happened before they left the gate. When the Ground Power Unit was disconnected after the engines were started all the lights went out until the master switch was reset. The generators were showing as on-line when they taxied away.
Indian Airlines engineers went through various checks and the only thing they found was that the aircraft batteries were completely flat.
After a recharge the aircraft returned to service without further incidents of this nature.
June 1959
Noted repainted in a later light blue and white livery.
25 August 1960
During a test flight from Beirut, Lebanon as part of the renewal of the Certificate of Airworthiness (CofA) the aircraft was put into a dive to check the aircraft's performance at the maximum permissable airspeed.
During the dive it was noted that 20 degrees of flap had been inadvertently selected and after the aircraft landed it was noted that the skins of the tailplanes and elevators were observed to be buckled.
There were no reported injuries to the 4 crew on board.
Repaired and returned to service.
29 September 1963
Noted at Prestwick Airport, Ayrshire, Scotland undergoing maintenance with Scottish Aviation Ltd.
November 1963
Returned to BOAC Associated Companies Ltd.
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