ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 184561
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| Date: | Sunday 7 July 1991 |
| Time: | 12:15 |
| Type: |  Bell 47G-3B-1 |
| Owner/operator: | Howden Helicopters |
| Registration: | G-BFJN |
| MSN: | WAN-12 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Cliffe Bank, Selby, North Yorkshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Cliffe Bank, Selby, North Yorkshire |
| Cliffe Bank, Selby, North Yorkshire | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 07-07-1991 when crashed at Cliffe Bank, Selby, North Yorkshire during agricultural (crop spraying/top dressing) operations. According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"Having surveyed the field he intended to spray from the air, the pilot began a low power approach at about 60 knots IAS, in order to make his first spraying run into the wind. As he approached the required application height, the pilot realized that the power required to arrest his descent was greater than the power available to him, and that ground contact was unavoidable.
Having used most of the available collective pitch to avoid a heavy contact with the ground, he was unable to flare sufficiently to reduce the ground speed to that which was required for a successful landing. The right hand skid dug into the ground at high speed, causing total loss of control, and the aircraft came to rest some 60 metres from the point of its initial ground contact. The pilot attributed the accident to an error of judgement on his part"
Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report "severe damage to aircraft, and some damage to crops". As a result, the registration G-BFJN was cancelled by the CAA over a year later, on 21-09-1992
NOTE: G-BFJN was ex-Military Westland Sioux AH.1 XT162 (c/no. WA/321). When sold off for civilian use, the c/no. was changed to WAN-12,(W/AN/12 which is the line number not the c/n) and it was first UK civil registered on 19-01-1978
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1.AAIB: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/5422eddb40f0b61342000187/Westland_Bell_47G-3B-1__G-BFJN_09-91.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=BFJN
3. http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=1458
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Feb-2016 12:31 | Dr.John Smith | Added |
| 17-Feb-2016 12:38 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Apr-2016 19:20 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 07-Apr-2016 19:21 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 01-Dec-2019 10:27 | TB | Updated [Plane category] |
| 23-Nov-2023 20:23 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
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