ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 18947
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| Date: | Tuesday 23 September 1969 |
| Time: | c. 15:10 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-28-180 Cherokee |
| Owner/operator: | Newcastle Aero Club |
| Registration: | G-AVYN |
| MSN: | 28-4662 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Ashford Gill Head, Gouthwaite Moor, near Pateley Bridge, Yorks. -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Leeds Bradford (LBA/EGNM) |
| Newcastle (NCL/EGNT) | |
| Investigating agency: | AIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft was being flown by a student pilot on a Visual Flight Rules (VFR) flight from Newcastle airport to Leeds/Bradford airport and return. The aircraft left Leeds-Bradford at 14:42 hours local time. Sixteen minutes after taking-off from Leeds/Bradford airport to return to Newcastle at approx. 15:00 hours, the student pilot called the Royal Air Force station at Leeming for a radio bearing. He was told that the direction finding facilities were not available.
The acknowledgement of this message at 15:03 hours was the last radio call from the aircraft. Soon afterwards it crashed in bad weather on high ground and the student was killed.
After a two-day search, the wreckage of G-AVYN was found at 1,640 feet amsl, and eight miles west of its intended track, 17 miles north of Leeds-Bradford Airport, at Ashford Gill Head, Gouthwaite Moor, near Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire.
There was no fire. The report concludes that the accident was due to an inexperienced pilot continuing his flight too far into deteriorating weather and colliding with high ground. Inadequate supervision of the pre-flight planning was a contributory factor. The AAIB report names the pilot as "Mr. A.P.Teare", and states that the time of the accident was "unknown - but probably between 15:05 and 15:20 hours"
In October 2011 much of the wreckage was still to be seen at the crash site. Registration G-AVYN cancelled by the UK Civil Aviation Authority 8/1/70 as "aircraft destroyed"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422efe640f0b613460002ef/13-1971_G-AVYN.pdf
2. CAA: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AVYN.pdf
3. http://peakwreckhunters.blogspot.com/2008/10/piper-cherokee-pa-28-180-g-avyn_2444.html
4. http://aircrashsites.co.uk/air-crash-sites-5/piper-cherokee-g-avyn/
5. http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/crash_sites/pennines/piper-cherokee-g-avyn-ashfold-gill-head/
6. Pictures of wreckage at https://www.flickr.com/p/8wkv7u and https://flickr.com/photos/pasujoba44/4937285221/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 15-Jan-2012 14:58 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 23-Aug-2012 16:30 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 06-Oct-2012 07:54 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 16-Jul-2013 00:55 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 16-Jul-2013 00:57 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Source] |
| 17-Oct-2015 17:49 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Sep-2020 19:31 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Source, Accident report] |
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