ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 332138
Date: | Wednesday 3 May 1967 |
Time: | |
Type: | Vickers 812 Viscount |
Owner/operator: | Channel Airways |
Registration: | G-AVJZ |
MSN: | 360 |
Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Other fatalities: | 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Southend Municipal Airport (SEN) -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Test |
Departure airport: | Southend Municipal Airport (SEN/EGMC) |
Destination airport: | Southend Municipal Airport (SEN/EGMC) |
Narrative:The Viscount was on a test flight to renew the Certificate of Airworthiness. Very shortly after takeoff the no. 4 propeller was feathered. The aircraft entered an uncontrolled turn, causing the right wingtip to scrape along the ground. The plane crashed into a wire fenced compound and caught fire.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Loss of control during takeoff after feathering of No.4 propeller had been initiated."
Sources:
Flight International 10 July 1969 (p.41)
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