Date:	Wednesday 27 March 1963
Time:
Type:	Vickers 668 Varsity T.1
Owner/operator:	Smiths Aviation, lsf Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	G-APAZ
MSN:	561
Year of manufacture:	1952
Engine model:	Bristol Hercules 264
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Staverton Airport (GLO) -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Staverton Airport (GLO/EGBJ)
Destination airport:	Staverton Airport (GLO/EGBJ)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Varsity G-APAZ was being used to conduct a check flight for the pilot, who wanted to be approved as a Varsity test pilot. A single engine runway 22 approach and overshoot were carried out. At 3 or 4 miles from the airport, at a height of 600-700 feet, the aircraft banked to the right and the pilot reported a total engine failure. G-APAZ lost height and crashed into a house on Tuffley Avenue.
The aircraft was leased from the Royal Air Force 1 ANS and also carried the military serial WF415.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "Selection of the starboard engine "idle-cut-off" switch to CUT-OFF instead of the port to the RUN position, when attempting to re-start the port engine, resulted in a complete loss of power at a low height and the aircraft struck a house in the ensuing crash-landing."

Survey of accidents to aircraft in the United Kingdom 1963 / CAA

photo (c) ANP Foundation; Staverton; 28 March 1963; (CC:by-nc-nd)

photo (c) Peter Clarke; Gloucester Airport (GLO/EGBJ); 21 July 1958

photo (c) Peter Clarke; Gloucester Airport (GLO/EGBJ); 21 July 1958

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