Date: | Wednesday 27 March 1963 |
Time: | |
Type: | Vickers 668 Varsity T.1 |
Owner/operator: | Smiths Aviation |
Registration: | G-APAZ |
MSN: | 561 |
Year of manufacture: | 1952 |
Engine model: | Bristol Hercules 264 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Staverton Airport (GLO) -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Staverton Airport (GLO/EGBJ) |
Destination airport: | Staverton Airport (GLO/EGBJ) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Varsity G-APAZ was being used to conduct a check flight for the pilot, who wanted to be approved as a Varsity test pilot. A single engine runway 22 approach and overshoot were carried out. At 3 or 4 miles from the airport, at a height of 600-700 feet, the aircraft banked to the right and the pilot reported a total engine failure. G-APAZ lost height and crashed into a house on Tuffley Avenue.
The aircraft was leased from the Royal Air Force 1 ANS and also carried the military serial WF415.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Selection of the starboard engine "idle-cut-off" switch to CUT-OFF instead of the port to the RUN position, when attempting to re-start the port engine, resulted in a complete loss of power at a low height and the aircraft struck a house in the ensuing crash-landing."
Sources:
Survey of accidents to aircraft in the United Kingdom 1963 / CAA
Location
Images:
photo (c) ANP Foundation; Staverton; 28 March 1963; (CC:by-nc-nd)
photo (c) Peter Clarke; Gloucester Airport (GLO/EGBJ); 21 July 1958
photo (c) Peter Clarke; Gloucester Airport (GLO/EGBJ); 21 July 1958
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