ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 151451
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| Date: | Saturday 30 July 1983 |
| Time: | 09:15 LT |
| Type: |  Bell 47G-3B1 |
| Owner/operator: | Heliwork Finance Ltd |
| Registration: | G-BHKD |
| MSN: | WA601 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Newfield Farm, Ledston, 3 miles N of Castleford, West Yorkshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Crossland Moor, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (EGND) |
| Investigating agency: | AIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 30.7.83: crashed during agricultural (crop spraying) operations at Newfield Farm, Ledston, 3 miles north of Castleford, West Yorkshire. The helicopter was spraying fungicide over a potato crop when it flew into the roof of a barn at high speed.
Examination of the wreckage revealed that there had been a failure of the hydraulic power unit for the lateral cyclic control. This caused the helicopter to lose control, roll to the right, and the main rotor blades to "clip" the roof of a farm building. The pilot, a New Zealand national, was killed instantly due to head injuries sustained. He was not wearing a crash helmet, and wore only light clothing, due to the "hothouse effect" of the "bubble canopy. However there was no fire.
Registration G-BHKD cancelled by the CAA as aircraft "destroyed" 5.12.83. Despite this, the wreckage was later built in Germany as D-HABY and registered by July 1999 to Lloyd Deutsche Helicopter GmbH, Bonn/Hangelar Airport. By 19.6.2005, it was reregistered to Agrarflug Helilift, Ahlen/Nord Heliport, and is still currently registered
NOTE: G-BHKD was originally built for the Army Air Corps as a Westland Sioux AH/1 serial XT848, and delivered in March 1968. It was first civil registered as G-BHKD on 17.1.80
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/Westland%20Bell%20Soloy%2047G-3B-1%20G-BHKD%2014-83.pdf
2. http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-BHKD.pdf
3. http://www.griffin-helicopters.co.uk/accidentdetails.aspx?accidentkey=14455
4. http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=1458
5. http://www.helionline.net/templates/sites/aaa_alz.html
6. http://www.demobbed.org.uk/aircraft.php?type=225
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 26-Dec-2012 08:52 | TB | Added |
| 17-Jun-2014 01:36 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-Jun-2014 19:26 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-Jun-2014 19:31 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Time, Narrative] |
| 30-Oct-2015 19:11 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Embed code] |
| 30-Oct-2015 19:12 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Embed code] |
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