Vickers Varsity crash, Mar 27, 1963 (2 killed), Glouceste...
Vickers Varsity accident on March 27, 1963 near Gloucester Gloucestershire, United Kingdom with 2 fatalities. Cause: The crew, trying to restart the...
- Date: March 27, 1963
- Aircraft: Vickers Varsity
- Location: Gloucester Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
- Fatalities: 2
- Phase of flight: Takeoff and climb
- Cause: The crew, trying to restart the stopped port engine after a single engine overshoot, moved the starboard engine cut off switch to off by mistake. The investigation found no mechanical fault.
A Smiths Aviation Vickers Varsity on a training flight lost power from its starboard engine after a single engine overshoot at Gloucester Staverton Airport, banked to starboard and crashed onto a house on Tuffley Avenue. Both pilots were killed and three people in the house were uninjured.