| 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) |
| Southend Municipal Airport (SEN/EGMC) |
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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