- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: November 01, 1961
Time: 1426
Location: Les Prevosts, Guernsey
Operator: Silver City Airways
Flight #: ?
Route: Cherboug - Les Prevosts
AC Type: Bristol 170 Freighter 31M
Registration: G-ANWL
cn / ln: 13260
Aboard: 10   (passengers:7  crew:3)
Fatalities: 2   (passengers:0  crew:2)
Ground: 0
Summary: Failed to gain altitude after a missed approach and crashed. The malfunctioning of the automatic pitch coarsening unit of the starboard propeller. This deprived the captain of the necessary degree of control of the aircraft at a critical stage of the flight.
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