
July 1958 to November 1961
Northeast Airlines Inc
N6592C - c/n 234 - a V.745D series Viscount
United States registered
July 1958
Converted to Type 798D and re-registered from N7472.
29 July 1958
First flight from Hurn Airport, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England after conversion.
21 August 1958
Departed on delivery fitted with the integral front 'airsteps' and weather radar ordered by Capital Airlines.
It was seen at Prestwick Airport, Ayrshire, Scotland on the same day before heading for Iceland, Greenland and Canada and then down into the USA.
Viscount illustrations by David Carter
15 November 1961
Damaged beyond economic repair after National Airlines Douglas DC-6B N8228H operating flight 429 collided with it at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts, USA shearing off the tail section and the outer section of the port wing. The Viscount had just landed on runway 04R when it was hit by the departing DC6B on intersecting runway 09. The Captain of the DC-6B thought that he had been given takeoff clearance.
There were no serious injuries to the 8 crew and 37 passengers on board the Viscount or the 30 passengers and crew on the Douglas DC-6B.
PROBABLE CAUSE: The Investigation Board considered that the ground collision accident occurred as the result of the commencement of takeoff by National Airlines flight 429 without clearance. Contributing factors were the failure of the control tower personnel to provide adequate surveillance of the active runways and the failure to issue an appropriate warning to the pilot of the DC-6B alerting him to the impending traffic conflict.
Total time 8,328 hours and 7,529 total landings.
Remains broken up for scrap after spares recovery.
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