Edinburgh - Coventry

On February 25, 1994 at 07:46 PM, Edinburgh - Coventry experienced a crash involving Vickers Viscount, operated by British World Airlines - BWA, with the event recorded near Uttoxeter Staffordshire.

The flight was categorized as cargo and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 1 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 50.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is weather. While on a cargo from Edinburgh to Coventry, cruising at FL150, the crew encountered severe icing conditions when engines n°2 and 3 failed. The crew was cleared to initiate an emergency descent to FL070 and FL050 and elected to divert to Birmingham Airport. Shortly later, he was able to restart the engine n°2 when the engine n°4 failed as well. The aircraft entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed in a wooded area located in Uttoxeter, about 45 km north of Birmingham Airport. The copilot was seriously injured and the captain was killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration G-OHOT, MSN 349, year of manufacture 1958.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 52.8980°, -1.8649°.