Date: | Saturday 23 December 1967 |
Time: | |
Type: | Hawker Siddeley HS-125-3B |
Owner/operator: | Autair International Airways |
Registration: | G-AVGW |
MSN: | 25120 |
Year of manufacture: | 1967 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 0,8 km W of London-Luton Airport (LTN) -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | London-Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) |
Destination airport: | London-Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) |
Narrative:The corporate jet aircraft was owned by The Beecham Group and operated by Autair International on a crew training flight for the first officer to complete his conversion onto the HS-125.
During a local flight from Luton Airport exercises were flown in the area, which were to be concluded with a simulated engine failure on take-off, followed by an asymmetric approach and single-engined landing. It climbed to around 300 feet before it descended and crashed onto the roof of the Vauxhall Motors factory, about half a mile west from the end of runway 26.
The accident was caused by an almost total reduction of engine power. The reason for which was not determined.
Sources:
Colours in the Sky: The History of Autair and Court Line Aviation / Graham M. Simons, 1997
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