Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 20 JUL 1965 |
| Type: | Vickers 701 Viscount |
| Operator: | Cambrian Airways |
| Registration: | G-AMOL |
| C/n / msn: | 25 |
| First flight: | 1953 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 20694 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Ground casualties: | Fatalities: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 0,5 km (0.3 mls) from Liverpool International Airport (LPL) (United Kingdom)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Isle Of Man-Ronaldsway Airport (IOM/EGNS), United Kingdom |
| Liverpool International Airport (LPL/EGGP), United Kingdom |
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 paint 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.
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." Events:
Sources:
» ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest No.16 - Volume II, Circular 82-AN/69 (14-23)
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Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Isle Of Man-Ronaldsway Airport to Liverpool International Airport as the crow flies is 142 km (89 miles).
Distance from Isle Of Man-Ronaldsway Airport to Liverpool International Airport as the crow flies is 142 km (89 miles).
