ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 166739
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| Date: | Friday 29 January 1982 |
| Time: | 15:40 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna T210L |
| Owner/operator: | Machine Music Ltd |
| Registration: | G-OILS |
| MSN: | 21060757 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | B3354 Botley to Horton Heath Road, near Southampton, Hampshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Cannes, France (CEQ/LFMD) |
| Southampton, Hampshire (SOU/EGHI) | |
| Investigating agency: | AIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Ex-G-BCZP, re-registered as G-OILS 28.8.81. Written off (damaged beyond economic repair) 29.1.82 when crashed onto the B3354 on the Botley to Horton Heath Road at Botley, near Southampton, Hampshire. Aircraft was on approach to Southampton Airport at Eastleigh when it force-landed after running out of fuel. Musician Gary Numan was the passenger in the aircraft not the pilot as widely reported at the time.
One possible explanation for the confusion might be that eye witnesses at the time would have seen Numan leaving the aircraft from the starboard or right-hand door and assumed that this was the pilot position like a driver of a car in Britain. In aircraft, particularly single-engined light aircraft, the pilot sits at the port or left controls. In an interview ran by the Independent in January 2003, Numan claims he was the passenger.
Damage sustained - according to the AAIB report: "fuselage deformation, starboard wing damage, rendered aircraft beyond economic repair". Registration G-OILS belatedly cancelled by the CAA on 23.1.87 as aircraft "destroyed"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. http://www.caa.co.uk/aircraft-registration/
2. https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/cessna-t210l-g-oils-29-january-1982
3. http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html
4. https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=341739
5. http://www.numanme.co.uk/numanme/Numanair.htm
6. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/gary-numan-numan-remains-128100.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Jun-2014 19:04 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 25-Aug-2014 16:31 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Narrative] |
| 05-Nov-2014 23:50 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Embed code] |
| 02-Feb-2015 20:56 | Postcards from Sloug | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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