ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 174243
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| Date: | Thursday 16 June 1988 |
| Time: | 18:09 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-28-161 Cherokee Warrior II |
| Owner/operator: | Dieter Werner Overbeck |
| Registration: | G-OVER |
| MSN: | 28-7816267 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Detling, 4 miles NE of Maidstone, Kent -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Stuttgart Airport, West Germany (STR/EDDS) |
| Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Surrey (EGTF) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Ex-G-BKNE: re-registered as G-OVER 14 January 1988. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 16 June 1988 when crashed at Detling, near Maidstone Kent, killing the pilot (sole person on board). The AAIB report concludes that G-OVER had experienced a CFIT (Controlled Flight Into Terrain) when it impacted the ground at 625 feet aml, whilst flying in a mixture of fog and low cloud. At the time of the accident the cloud base was down to 600-800 feet amsl.
The pilot had filed a VFR flight plan, but was flying in IFR conditions at the time of the accident. G-OVER had struck trees at around 600-650 feet amsl, and the impact had torn off the right wing. The marks on the trees show that, at the point of impact with the trees, G-OVER was flying 30 degrees nose down, 20 degrees right wing low, and a heading of 280 degrees magnetic. The rest of the aircraft came to rest in a crater over a distance of seven feet, with the engine buried into the clay soil. Both fuel tanks had burst under the force of impact, but there as no fire.
There was some evidence that the crash had been initiated by a mechanical failure in the pitch trim system, which would have forced the nose down, although it could not be conclusively established if this was pre- or post-crash
As the AAIB report confirms, G-OVER was "destroyed"; as a result, the registration was cancelled by the CAA on 17 May 1989 as "destroyed"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. Hamburger Abendblatt 18 June 1988
2. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422eb0740f0b61346000045/Piper_PA-28-161_Cherokee_Warrior__G-OVER__09-88.pdf
3. CAA: History as G-BKNE 1983-1988: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-BKNE.pdf
4. https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/G-OVER.html
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detling
6. http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=17903.0
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Mar-2015 19:51 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 03-Mar-2015 19:51 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 03-Mar-2015 19:54 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 03-Mar-2015 19:56 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator] |
| 03-Mar-2015 19:58 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 05-Jan-2016 00:39 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
| 23-Feb-2018 01:39 | TB | Updated [Operator, Source] |
| 23-Nov-2020 17:32 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Accident report] |
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