Date:	Tuesday 20 July 1965
Time:
Type:	Vickers 701 Viscount
Owner/operator:	Cambrian Airways
Registration:	G-AMOL
MSN:	25
Year of manufacture:	1953
Total airframe hrs:	20694 hours
Engine model:	Rolls-Royce Dart 506
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	0,5 km from Liverpool International Airport (LPL) -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Cargo
Departure airport:	Isle of Man-Ronaldsway Airport (IOM/EGNS)
Destination airport:	Liverpool International Airport (LPL/EGGP)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Viscount G-AMOL departed Ronaldsway at 16:49 for a flight to Liverpool. The flight was made at flight level 70 and at 17:08 hours the aircraft was identified by Liverpool radar over Wallasey and positioned for a PPI continuous descent radar approach to runway 26. Half a mile from touchdown the radar approach was completed and the aircraft was then seen (on radar) to be just discernibly to the right of the centreline. No radio messages were received from the aircraft after the start of the talk-down. At 550 metres from the threshold, it was estimated to be at a height between 30 and 60 metres and about 40 metres to the right of the centre line. At this point witnesses saw the aircraft bank and turn to the right. The fuselage was level and the aircraft was banked almost vertically for part of the turn. When heading in approximately the opposite direction to the runway it rolled on to its back and crashed into the roof of a factory about 365 metres to the right of the extended centre line of the runway and about 550 metres from the threshold.
After penetrating the roof, the aircraft had struck a heavy steel girder which had caused it to tip "tail-over-nose". It had then come to rest the right way up on the floor of the workshop with the tail resting on the steel roof trusses. An intense fire broke out which consumed almost the whole structure of the fuselage.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The aircraft went out of control during the final stage of an approach to land but the reason for this has not been determined."

ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest No.16 - Volume II, Circular 82-AN/69 (14-23)

photo (c) ANP / UPI; Liverpool International Airport (LPL); 20 July 1965; (CC:by-nc-nd)

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