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Registration Date Event Operator Remarks
N123SW 07.03.1962 First flight Canadair Ltd.
N123SW 05.04.1962 Delivery Seaboard World Airways
G-AWGT 29.05.1968 Leased Transglobe Airways Returned to Seaboard on 31.01.1969 after Transglobe Collapsed
G-AWGT 06.02.1969 New owner Tradewinds Airways Returned to Airlift 1967
G-AWGT 22.04.1978 Leased Cyprus Airways
5B-DAN 01.06.1979 New owner Cyprus Airways
5B-DAN 04.11.1980 Landing incident Cyprus Airways The Aircraft was damaged beyond repair after an emergency landing at Akrotiri AFB, Cyprus.
The plane was on approach to Larnaca when the crew realized they had a problem when the gear refused its duty to be lowered. The crew did all possible tricks to lower the gear and after a flyby at Larnaca it was decided that a safe landing was unlikely.The gear was lowered but not fully extracted. The plane was deviated to the RAF base in Akrotiri and landing on foam was prepared. After the landing the maingear collapsed and the plane ran of the runway. The plane was damaged beyond repair and after all valuable parts had been removed it was cut up and scrapped. The crew was unhurt.
An investigation by the British authorities revealed that an hydraulic pump had failed in a way that it drained all fluid leaving no hydraulic pressure to extract the gear.