Date:	Friday 23 January 1987
Time:	14:40 LT
Type:	Cessna FRA.150M Aerobat (Reims)
Owner/operator:	Airwork Ltd
Registration:	G-BDAU
MSN:	FRA150-0275
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	750 metres SW of threshold of Runway 04 at Perth Aerodrome, Scotland -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Perth/Scone Airfeld, Scotland (EGPT/PSL)
Destination airport:	Perth/Scone Airfield, Scotland (EGPT/PSL)
Investigating agency:	AAIB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Crashed 23/1/1987 shortly after takeoff and caught fire: aircraft came down 750 metres south west of threshold of Runway 04 at Perth Aerodrome, Scotland (EGPT/PSL). The student pilot (from Botswana) flying solo was killed. According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:

"The aircraft taxied for Runway 22 at Perth/Scone at 14:17 hours, and took off shortly afterwards. It completed one circuit successfully, landed, and the took off again without coming to a halt on the runway. After a 'downwind' call, the pilot reported 'finals' on the R/T, and then added that the next landing was to be a 'touch and go'. The aircraft landed and was seen to take off again normally at about 14:38 hours. The aircraft climbed straight ahead to a height of between 200 and 300 feet

It was heard passing a house which is situated near to the south west boundary of the airfield, when, shortly afterwards, the occupants of the house heard a crash and observed fire and smoke in a ploughed field some 200 metres from the house.

The aircraft was not observed from the ATC tower, since, although the crash site was in view from the tower, the direction of the crash site was in direct sunlight, the sun being low in the sky and 7 degrees to the right of the runway heading. However a pall of smoke was observed by an engineer, who was near the main hangar, and he raised the alarm and alerted the crash rescue crew. The airfield crash rescue Land Rover was on site within a few minutes, followed by the Perth Fire Brigade vehicle at 14:50 hours. The student pilot had been fatally injured in the crash"

Damage to airframe: Per the AAIB report "aircraft destroyed". As a result, the registration G-BDAU was cancelled by the CAA over a year later on, 8/3/1988 as aircraft "destroyed"

1. Air Britain: British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919 to 1999 (published 1999)
2. AAIB: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/5423037e40f0b61346000c9b/Cessna_FRA_150M__Aerobat___G-BDAU__09-87.pdf
3. CAA: http://www.caa.co.uk/aircraft-registration/
4. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://coptercrazy.brinkster.net/search/f151show.asp?start=251&count=50]

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-May-2008 11:10	ASN archive	Added
07-Aug-2008 11:12	harro	Updated
26-Sep-2011 10:25	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Departure airport, Source]
10-Nov-2012 16:54	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
06-Dec-2015 00:16	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]