ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 138714
Last updated: 25 May 2013
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Date:23-MAR-1991
Time:11:05 local
Type:Silhouette image of generic C172 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Cessna F172L Skyhawk (Reims)
Operator:Private
Registration: G-AZLM
C/n / msn: F172-0842
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:0
Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:Badminton aerodrome, Badminton, Gloucestershire -   United Kingdom
Phase: Initial climb
Nature:Parachuting
Departure airport:Badminton aerodrome
Destination airport:Badminton aerodrome
Narrative:
Crashed on take off from Badminton Airfield, Badminton, Gloucestershire 23/3/1991, whilst on a sortie dropping three parachutists. Aircraft failed to gain height, and with electricity pylons and overhead HT wired in the aircraft's intended track, the pilot opted to made a precautionary landing in a grass field. The nose wheel "dug in" to the soft grassland soil, aircraft failed to stop, and was wrecked when it collided with a dry stone wall

Registration G-AZLM cancelled as destroyed 15/4/1991. Wreckage photographed at the Norfolk & Suffolk Aircraft Museum 23/7/2008

Sources:
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=reg&fullregmark=AZLM
http://www.shobdon.shaunmcguire.co.uk/aircraft.htm
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1057939/
http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/Reims%20Cessna%20F172L,%20G-AZLM%2006-91.pdf

G-AZLM G-AZLM

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
26-Sep-2011 02:22 Uli Elch Added
01-Sep-2012 20:06 Dr. John Smith Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
01-Sep-2012 21:07 Dr. John Smith Updated [Time, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
23-May-2013 01:54 Dr. John Smith Updated [Embed code, Narrative]
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