From: Phil Payne 

John Beamish wrote:
>
> The old VC10 was reputed to have the safest airframe record.  Only two were
> lost by accident/crash with an attendant loss of life.  Another 5 had the
> airframe damaged by a variety of means and subsequently not repaired but
> there were no fatalities in any of these instances.
>
>
http://aviation-safety.net/database/dblist.php?field=typecode&var=491%&cat=%1
&sorteer=datekey&page=1
>
> Damn fine aircraft to be a passenger in.  I flew in one my first time across
> the Atlantic (our flight was the first flight out of Ottawa in 48 hours
> following a major blizzard) and I also flew from Khartoum to Nairobi in one
> several months later.

I left Canada (from Malton Field) in December 1974.  It was a very busy
period, and there were several extra sections.  There were three of us, and
by company procedure we had to take separate flights.  I was the middle one
of the three, on an Air Canada Jumbo.  I got home without incident.

The one before was a 707 - burst a tyre while taxiing.  The one after me
was a VC10 - engine fire during takeoff and a successful abort.

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