Hawker Siddeley Trident 1C G-ARPT tail
Hawker Siddeley Trident 1C G-ARPT (msn 2121), of British European Airways, at London Heathrow Airport, after the crash of BKS Air Transport Airspeed Ambassador G-AMAD on 3 July 1968. Airspeed Ambassador, G-AMAD, was flying a cargo of 8 horses from Deauville to London. When approaching the runway 28R threshold at London Airport, the left wing suddenly dropped. The wing-tip, followed by the left main gear wheels touched the grass to the left of the runway. The crew tried to increase power to go around, but the aircraft flew on with an increasing bank angle. The plane struck two parked BEA HS-121 Trident aircraft, burst into flames, rolled on its back and came to rest against the ground floor of the terminal building.
Trident G-ARPT (msn 2121) was damaged beyond repair; G-ARPI had its fin and tailplane destroyed but was repaired. All but three of the Horse handlers were killed, out of the eight on-board.
The probable cause was failure of the port flap operating rod due to fatigue, permitting the port flaps to retract. This resulted in a rolling moment to port which could not be controlled
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Airspeed Approaching Burst Cause Controlled Deauville Dropped Failure Fatigue Flap Flaps Flew Followed Handlers Heathrow Hs-121 Increase Increasing On-board Operating Parked Permitting Probable Repair Repaired Resulted Retract Rolled Runway Struck Suddenly Tailplane Terminal Threshold Touched Trident Tried Wing-tip
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