Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 22 OCT 1963 |
| Time: | 10:40 |
| Type: | BAC One-Eleven 200AB |
| Operator: | British Aircraft Corporation - BAC |
| Registration: | G-ASHG |
| C/n / msn: | 004 |
| First flight: | 1963 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 81 |
| Cycles: | 78 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 2 km (1.3 mls) NNW of Chicklade (United Kingdom)
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| Phase: | Maneuvering (MNV) |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Wisley Airfield, United Kingdom |
| Wisley Airfield, United Kingdom |
The One-Eleven prototype was engaged in a series of test fights to assess stability and handling characteristics during the approach to, and recovery from the stall with a centre of gravity in varying positions. On the fifth stalling test, at a height of about 16000 feet and with 8deg of flaps, the plane entered a stable stall. The 1-11 continued to descend at a high vertical speed, and in a substantially horizontal attitude and eventually struck the ground with very little forward speed.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "During a stalling test the aircraft entered a stable stalled conditions, recovery from which was impossible." Sources:
» ICAO Accident Digest No.15 - Volume II, Circular 78-AN/66 (55-67)
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Wisley Airfield to Wisley Airfield as the crow flies is NAN km (NAN miles).
Distance from Wisley Airfield to Wisley Airfield as the crow flies is NAN km (NAN miles).
