ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 186960
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| Date: | Tuesday 29 September 1992 |
| Time: | 16:30 |
| Type: |  Robinson R22 Beta |
| Owner/operator: | Great Excitement Ltd |
| Registration: | G-CPLI |
| MSN: | 1710 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1991 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Lashendon (Headcorn) Airfield, Headcorn, Ashford, Kent -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Lashenden (Headcorn) Airfield, Kent (EGKH) |
| Lashenden (Headcorn) Airfield, Kent (EGKH) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 29-9-1992 when crashed at Lashendon (Headcorn) Airfield, Shenley Farm Cottages, Headcorn, Ashford, Kent. According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:
At Headcorn Airfield, on the afternoon of 29 September 1992, a student pilot was practising hovering in Robinson R.22 G-CPLI. He was flying solo but supervised (presumably from the ground). In the course of this exercise the helicopter yawed to port. The pilot corrected this, applying right pedal, and raised the collective pitch control in an attempt to control the hover. Unfortunately and unintentionally, he also applied aft cyclic control. The helicopter moved backwards, the rear ends of its skids hit the ground and this forced the tail boom down as it pivoted on its skids. The tail rotor hit the ground. This distorted the tail boom. This caused the main rotor blades to impact the ground and the engine to stop. The student pilot was then able to leave the helicopter uninjured. The helicopter suffered substantial damage to its main rotor blades, main rotor hub and mast, tail rotor, tail boom, gearbox and controls.
Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report "Major damage to main rotor blades and hub,tail rotor assembly and tail boom; major damage to gear box rotor mast and controls". All of which were presumably enough to render the airframe as "damaged beyond economic repair", as the registration G-CPLI was cancelled by the CAA on 6-11-1992 as "destroyed".
However, as a final "twist", the registration C-CPLI was restored one month later (on 10-12-1992) to Thurston Helicopters (Engineering) Ltd at Redhill, Surrey. It was then cancelled for the second - and final - time on 28-5-1996 as "Permanently withdrawn from use"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5423037ee5274a1314000b95/Robinson_R22_Beta__G-CPLI_11-92.pdf
2. https://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=17842.0
3. http://www.griffin-helicopters.co.uk/accidentdetails.aspx?accidentkey=14693
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headcorn_Aerodrome
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-May-2016 18:05 | Dr.John Smith | Added |
| 04-Aug-2022 21:11 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative, Category] |
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