Editing 1958 Dan-Air Avro York crash

{{short description|1958 aviation accident}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2018}}
{{Infobox aircraft occurrence
|name             = 1958 Dan-Air Avro York crash
|occurrence_type  = Accident
|image            = Avro 685 York G-AMXM Hunting Clan Ringway 27.08.55 edited-3.jpg
|image_size       = 350
|alt              = 
|caption          = An Avro York similar to the accident aircraft
|date             = 25 May 1958
|type             = Engine failure and on-board fire
|site             = Near [[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]], [[India]]
|coordinates      = 
|aircraft_type    = [[Avro York]]
|aircraft_name    = 
|operator         = [[Dan-Air]]
|tail_number      = G-AMUV
|origin           = [[Karachi]], Pakistan
|stopover         = 
|stopover0        = 
|stopover1        = 
|stopover2        = 
|stopover3        = 
|last_stopover    = 
|destination      = [[New Delhi]], India
|passengers       = 0
|crew             = 5
|injuries         = 0
|fatalities       = 4
|survivors        = 1
}}
The '''1958 Dan-Air Avro York crash''' was a fatal accident involving an [[Avro York]] cargo aircraft operated by [[Dan-Air|Dan Air Services Limited]] on a non-scheduled international all-cargo service between [[Karachi]], [[Pakistan]], and [[New Delhi]], [[India]]. The aircraft crashed on 25 May 1958 during a [[forced landing]] at [[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]], [[India]], after an engine had caught fire en route from Karachi to Delhi. Four of the five occupants of the aircraft were killed.<ref name="Spirit">''The Spirit of Dan-Air'', Simons, G.M., GMS Enterprises, Peterborough, 1993, pp. 22, 225</ref><ref name="ASN">[http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19580525-0 ASN Aircraft accident description Avro 685 York C.1 G-AMUV — Gurgaon, India]</ref><ref name="Flight">{{Cite web|date=2016-03-06|title=gatwick {{!}} armstrong whitworth {{!}} 1958 {{!}} 0769 {{!}} Flight Archive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306093633/https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1958/1958%20-%200769.html|access-date=2021-07-01|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>

==The aircraft==
The aircraft, operated by [[Dan-Air|Dan Air Services Ltd]], was an Avro 685 York ([[United Kingdom aircraft registration|registered in the United Kingdom]] as ''G-AMUV'') that had its first flight in 1946.<ref name="ASN"/> The York had been delivered to the [[Royal Air Force]] in February 1946, it was withdrawn from use and sold as a civilian aircraft in 1952.

==Accident==
Following the aircraft's departure from [[Jinnah International Airport|Karachi Airport]] in Pakistan's [[Sindh]] province, an in-flight fire developed en route to Delhi. This necessitated an immediate forced landing on rough terrain near Gurgaon in the [[States and territories of India|Indian state]] of Haryana, resulting in the aircraft's break-up and a post-crash fire.<ref name="ASN"/> Among the crew of five, the [[radio operator]] was the sole survivor. This crash was Dan-Air's first fatal accident.<ref name="Spirit"/>

==Cause==
The subsequent investigation established a mid-air fire as a consequence of an internal [[Aviation safety#Engine failure|failure of the aircraft's no. 1 engine]] as the accident's probable cause.

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