ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 178863
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| Date: | Thursday 21 August 2014 |
| Time: | 18:05 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-32R-201 Saratoga |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | G-RIGH |
| MSN: | 32-46123 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1998 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming IO-540-K1G5 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Strathallan Airfield, Auchterarder, Perthshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Cumbernauld Airfield, North Lanarkshire (EGPG) |
| Strathallan Airfield, Auchterader, Perthshire | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Substantially damaged (see photo below) 21/8/2014 when overran the runway on landing at Strathallan Airfield, Auchterader, Perthshire. According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"The pilot arrived at Strathallan Airfield having refuelled the aircraft to full tanks at Cumbernauld. The reported temperature was approximately 23°, pressure 1005 hPa with a light crosswind, there had been recent heavy rain and the grass strip was wet. The pilot reported that after a normal approach, the aircraft touched down 'after considerable float', having landed a few knots fast. He then found the brakes were ineffective on the wet grass and he was unable to prevent the aircraft from departing the end of the runway, crashing through a fence and stopping approximately 15 metres into the next field. The pilot was unhurt; he made the aircraft safe and vacated it normally.
Strathallan has a grass strip 620 metres long with two landing runways, 28 and 10. The field slopes down to the east with a gradient of approximately 0.5%, with trees and higher ground to the west of the threshold of Runway 10. The surface temperature and pressure at the time of the accident resulted in an airfield density altitude of approximately 1,300 feet
The pilot concluded that the main cause of this accident was not touching down in the correct place. The slipperiness of the short wet grass, the lack of any headwind, the gentle downward slope and the density altitude were contributory factors".
Damage sustained to G-RIGH: Damage to Propeller blade, dents in leading edge of both sides, scrape on left engine side panel. By 11/07/2015 (almost a year later) G-RIGH was at Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire, apparently undergoing repairs/rebuild.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/548b0e86ed915d4c100002d7/Piper_PA-32R-301_Saratoga_SP_G-RIGH_12-14.pdf
2. http://www.caa.co.uk/aircraft-registration/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 28 August 2017 | G-RIGH | Private | 0 | Faversham Road, Seasalter, near Whitstable, Kent, England | |
sub |
Images:
Manchester-Barton Airfield (EGCB),Lancashire, UK. - 21st October 2008
Manchester- Barton Airfield (EGCB) Lancashire, UK - 22nd September 2007
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Aug-2015 14:20 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 21-Aug-2015 14:23 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 21-Aug-2015 14:25 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 27-Feb-2020 20:49 | Peter Clarke | Updated [Photo] |
| 10-Mar-2020 20:34 | Peter Clarke | Updated [Photo] |
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