Status:
Date:	14 APR 1965
Type:	Douglas C-47B-20-DK
Operator:	British United Airways - BUA
Registration:	G-ANTB
C/n / msn:	15762/27207
First flight:	1945
Total airframe hrs:	18544
Engines:	2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C
Crew:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4
Passengers:	Fatalities: 23 / Occupants: 23
Total:	Fatalities: 26 / Occupants: 27
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	1 km (0.6 mls) E of Jersey-States Airport, Channel Islands (JER) (United Kingdom)
Phase:	Approach (APR)
Nature:	International Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Paris-Orly Airport (ORY/LFPO), France
Destination airport:	Jersey-States Airport, Channel Islands (JER/EGJJ), United Kingdom
Flightnumber:	1030X

Narrative:
Weather at Jersey was deteriorating and the runway Visual Range was below minima. The crew decided to continue to Jersey and attempt a runway 27 approach. The first approach had to abandoned and a second approach was made during which the aircraft struck outermost pole of the approach lighting system at 58 feet height, 3000 feet short of the threshold. The DC-3 crashed into a field and caught fire.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The aircraft struck the approach lighting when it was flown below the safe approach path during an approach to land in conditions of very low cloud and poor visibility, the pilot having disregarded the approach ban applied by his operations manual."

Sources:
» ICAO Circular 88-AN/74 (77-86)