VH-EWL (BE76) — routes, history & safety record

We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.

Safety history

No recorded accidents or incidents for this aircraft in FlightFinder’s database.

Registrations are reused. These records predate the airframe built in 1981 and belong to earlier aircraft that carried VH-EWL.

May 31, 1974Accident
Fokker F-27, registered VH-EWL, was operating as East-West Airlines Flight 752/753 from Sydney (SYD) to Orange, Bathurst and back to Sydney. The flight departed from Sydney at 17:06 hours and proceeded to Orange without incident.
Fokker F27 Friendship
During the climb performance of the aircraft was adversely affected by an unpredictable encounter with a large change in the horizontal wind component, and an associated downdraft, at a height too low to effect recovery. Full accident record