Accidents and incidents Mount Isa Airport
on 22 september 1966 vickers viscount aircraft departed mount isa airport twenty passengers flight brisbane via longreach. forty-four minutes after takeoff fire started in 1 of engines. crew unable extinguish fire or feather propeller made emergency descent intention of landing @ winton, town 225 nm (417 km; 259 mi) south-east of mount isa. fire spread fuel tank , weakened wing structure large part of left wing broke away. aircraft crashed 12 mi (19 km) west of winton. on board killed. remains fifth-worst accident in australia s civil aviation history.
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