PP-SRM  Vickers V.701 Viscount                                     (c/n  19)

                              

                                   This was one of ten V.701 Viscounts purchased from British European Airways in 1962/3 to
                                   augment the six V.827 models purchased new from Vickers in 1958.       It was previously
                                   G-AMOF when with BEA.    On 31 October 1966 when operating VASP flight 237, -SRM
                                   ran off a very wet runway at Rio de Janeiro's Santos Dumont Airport, and came to rest on
                                   the rocks of a breakwater, with the nose almost touching the water.  No passengers or crew
                                   were injured, but the aircraft was subsequently written off.