Vickers Viscount crash, Aug 9, 1968 (48 killed), Langenbr...

Vickers Viscount accident on August 9, 1968 near Langenbruck Bavaria, Germany with 48 fatalities.

British Eagle Flight 802, a Vickers Viscount flying from London Heathrow to Innsbruck, crashed onto a highway near Langenbruck after all of its electrical generators disconnected. All 48 people on board were killed. Electrical faults had been recorded in the months before the accident.

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