Gloucester - Gloucester

On March 27, 1963 at 12:00 AM, Gloucester - Gloucester experienced a crash involving Vickers Varsity, operated by Smiths Aviation, with the event recorded near Gloucester Gloucestershire.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a city crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The crew was engaged in a local training flight. Shortly after takeoff from runway 22 at Gloucester-Staverton Airport, while climbing to a height of 600-700 feet, the airplane stalled and crashed on the roof of a house located on Tuffley Avenue. Both pilots were killed while three people leaving in the house were uninjured. The aircraft was destroyed.

Aircraft reference details include registration G-APAZ, MSN 561, year of manufacture 1957.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 51.8654°, -2.2458°.