- | 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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