Referred to as the Avro 748, the plane was too late to compete with the four-engined Vickers Viscount, which led Avro to design a smaller aircraft that two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop engines would ...

Its last commercial flight was in 2005, closing a chapter on a pioneering jetliner that set new standards in aircraft engineering and certainly earned its spot in aviation history. The Viscount ...

Some 57 passengers and four crew died when the Viscount aircraft - named St Phelim - went down off the Wexford coast at Tuskar Rock, bound for London. The report was compiled by a team of ...