Status:	Final
Date:	27 MAR 1963
Type:	Vickers 668 Varsity T.1
Operating for:	Smiths Aviation
Leased from:	Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	G-APAZ
C/n / msn:	561
First flight:	1952
Engines:	2 Bristol Hercules 264
Crew:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Passengers:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	Staverton (United Kingdom)
Phase:	En route (ENR)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Gloucestershire Airport (GLO/EGBJ), United Kingdom
Destination airport:	Gloucestershire Airport (GLO/EGBJ), United Kingdom

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."

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