Date:	Saturday 23 December 1967
Time:
Type:	Hawker Siddeley HS-125-3B
Owner/operator:	Autair International Airways
Registration:	G-AVGW
MSN:	25120
Year of manufacture:	1967
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	0,8 km W of London-Luton Airport (LTN) -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	London-Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW)
Destination airport:	London-Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW)

Narrative:
The corporate jet aircraft was owned by The Beecham Group and operated by Autair International on a crew training flight for the first officer to complete his conversion onto the HS-125.
During a local flight from Luton Airport exercises were flown in the area, which were to be concluded with a simulated engine failure on take-off, followed by an asymmetric approach and single-engined landing. It climbed to around 300 feet before it descended and crashed onto the roof of the Vauxhall Motors factory, about half a mile west from the end of runway 26.

The accident was caused by an almost total reduction of engine power. The reason for which was not determined.

Colours in the Sky: The History of Autair and Court Line Aviation / Graham M. Simons, 1997

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