ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 185372
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| Date: | Wednesday 8 April 1992 |
| Time: | 17:45 |
| Type: |  Grumman G-164A Ag-Cat |
| Owner/operator: | CKS Air Ltd |
| Registration: | G-BDZF |
| MSN: | 027B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Upper Dornford Farm, Woodstock, Oxfordshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Upper Dornford Farm, Woodstock, Oxfordshire |
| Upper Dornford Farm, Woodstock, Oxfordshire | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 08-04-1992 when overturned on landing at Upper Dornford Farm, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, during agricultural (top dressing/crop spraying) operations. According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"The pilot reports that he was making his second landing into a 40 acre field with the drying surface of a young wheat crop. With negligible wind, a three-point touch down was followed by a ground run of about 10 metres, after which the main wheels sank into a soft patch of earth. The aircraft nosed over and came to rest inverted. The pilot's full upper torso restraint harness held throughout the landing, and he was able to release himself from the inverted aircraft without injury"
Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report "substantial damage wing wings, fin and rudder, and rear fuselage. Propeller bent, and engine shock-loasded". All of which must have presumably rendered the airframe as "damaged beyond economic repair", as the registration G-BDZF was cancelled by the CAA on 25-08-1992 as owner's "Addressee Status: Gone Away"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/5422f74e40f0b613460006bb/Schweizer_Grumman_G-164B_Agcat__G-BDZF_04-92.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=BDZF
3. https://www.flickr.com/photos/tristartech/14949162210
4. http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000970229.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 13-Mar-2016 19:36 | Dr.John Smith | Added |
| 13-Mar-2016 19:38 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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