Editing Silver City Airways (section)

==Accidents and incidents==
There are three recorded accidents involving Silver City aircraft, two of which were fatal.<ref>[https://asn.flightsafety.org/database/operators/5348 Aviation Safety Network > ASN Aviation Safety Database > Operator index > United Kingdom > Silver City Airways]</ref><ref>[https://asn.flightsafety.org/database/operators/5706 Aviation Safety Network > ASN Aviation Safety Database > Operator index > United Kingdom > Manx Airlines]</ref>

The [[Winter Hill air disaster|worst accident in company history]] occurred on 27 February 1958. [[Bristol Freighter|Bristol 170 Mark 21E Freighter]] registration G-AICS operating a [[charter flight]] from the Isle of Man to Manchester on behalf of Manx Airlines crashed in bad weather on [[Winter Hill (Lancashire)|Winter Hill]] near [[Bolton]], [[Lancashire]], destroying the aircraft and killing 35 of 39 passengers (all three crew members survived).<ref name="Fleet_List"/><ref name="WinterHill_Disaster">[https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/334292 ASN Aircraft accident description Bristol 170 Freighter Mark 21E G-AICS — Winter Hill, UK]</ref><ref name="Reliving_WinterHill">[http://archive.thisislancashire.co.uk/2005/1/1/452250.html ''Survivors relive Winter Hill crash horror'', Lancashire, Bolton Evening News, 1 January 2005]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The aircraft was chartered by the Isle of Man motor trade to take members to the [[Exide]] battery factory in [[Clifton (Manchester) railway station|Clifton Junction]], and it hit the northeast slope of Winter Hill in thick fog at a height of approximately {{convert|1460|ft}} and burst into flames, as a result of a navigational error committed by the [[First Officer (civil aviation)|first officer]].<ref name="WinterHill_Disaster"/><ref name="Reliving_WinterHill"/>

The second fatal accident occurred on 1 November 1961. [[Bristol Superfreighter|Bristol 170 Mark 32 Superfreighter]] registration G-ANWL operating a scheduled service from Cherbourg to [[Guernsey]] crashed after losing height during a missed approach to [[Guernsey Airport]], damaging the aircraft beyond repair and killing two out of three crew members (all seven passengers survived).<ref name="Guernsey_accident">[https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/333462 ASN Aircraft accident description Bristol 170 Superfreighter Mark 32 G-ANWL — Les Prevosts, Guernsey, Channel Islands]</ref>

Having failed to gain height following a power increase to [[Go-around|go around]], the aircraft struck the ground with its [[starboard]] wing and cartwheeled due to a malfunctioning automatic pitch coarsening unit of the starboard propeller.<ref name="Guernsey_accident"/>

The non-fatal accident occurred on 19 January 1953. [[Bristol Freighter|Bristol 170 Mark 21 Freighter]] registration G-AICM operating a non-scheduled cargo flight from [[West Berlin]] [[emergency landing|crash-land]]ed near [[Berlin Tempelhof Airport|Tempelhof Airport]] as a result of [[fuel starvation]] when bad weather at the destination forced it to return to Berlin. Although the accident damaged the aircraft beyond repair, both pilots survived.<ref>[https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/335437 ASN Aircraft accident description Bristol 170 Freighter Mark 21 G-AICM — near Berlin Tempelhof, Germany]</ref>