ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 190711
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| Date: | Monday 17 October 2016 |
| Time: | 11:20 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna F150M (Reims) |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | G-BDZC |
| MSN: | 1316 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
| Engine model: | Continental O-200-A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Bourn Airfield, Cambridgeshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Bourn Airfield (EGSN) |
| Bourn Airfield (EGSN) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A man died in a plane crash at Bourn Airfield, and another man (a passenger) was taken to hospital with serious injuries. The pilot who died was a club member who had recently joined the flying school.
UPDATE: The official AAIB report into the accident was published 14.9.2017, and the following is the summary from that report...
"The aircraft was seen to take off with 40° flap set. It did not appear to climb and flew at low level above the runway. Approaching a line of trees beyond the end of the runway, the nose pitched up and the aircraft banked left. The left wing dropped and the aircraft descended in a steep nose-down attitude into the ground. The pilot was fatally injured but the passenger survived. The investigation concluded that the pilot had attempted to take off with the flaps unintentionally set to the fully deployed position. The excess drag in this condition prevented the aircraft from climbing."
Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report "Aircraft Destroyed". The CAA seem to have agreed with with this conclusion, as the registration G-BDZC was cancelled on 17.7.2017 as "destroyed"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/59afe77fed915d033a9fa812/Reims_Cessna_F150M_G-BDZC_09-17.pdf
2. CAA: https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?catid=1&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=reg&fullregmark=BDZC
3. https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cambridgeshire-airfield-crash-one-dead-another-seriously-hurt-after-light-plane-comes-down/story-29815990-detail/story.html
4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-cambridgeshire-37660598
5. http://cdn4.24live.co/images/2016/10/18/1476721589145414.jpg
6. https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=101973
7. http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/story/2016-10-17/man-dies-after-plane-crashes-in-cambridgeshire/
8. https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/transport/man-killed-and-second-seriously-injured-in-plane-crash-in-cambridgeshire-1-7633150_
9. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?140504-Fatality-at-Bourn-17th-Oct-2016&p=2348823
10. http://www.rfcbourn.co.uk/Rural_Flying_Corps_-_Bourn/Aircraft.html
11. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3845024/One-man-killed-one-seriously-injured-light-aircraft-crash-lands-Cambridgeshire-airfield.html#ixzz4NNPOO37x
12. http://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-england-cambridgeshire-37660598
Media:
Fatal accident at Bourn, 17 Oct 16 https://t.co/zFCE7yFgA1 pic.twitter.com/CpMTEXUPM2
— AAIB (@aaibgovuk) 14 September 2017
Bourn Airfield crash: Picture from the scene https://t.co/KNzcITcTJB pic.twitter.com/Ykem2iYLoX
— BBC Look East (@BBCLookEast) October 17, 2016
Eye-witness tells of 'gut-wrenching' moment he saw experienced pilot plummet to his death in fatal air crash: https://t.co/egZnuYuBsL
— Cambridge News (@CambridgeNewsUK) October 17, 2016
The AAIB has sent a team to Bourn, Cambridgeshire
— AAIB (@aaibgovuk) October 17, 2016
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Oct-2016 16:45 | FERRYSEA | Added |
| 17-Oct-2016 16:46 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Damage, Narrative, Plane category] |
| 17-Oct-2016 16:47 | harro | Updated [Embed code] |
| 17-Oct-2016 16:56 | Aerossurance | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Embed code] |
| 17-Oct-2016 18:35 | Geno | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Nature, Source] |
| 17-Oct-2016 18:48 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative] |
| 17-Oct-2016 18:59 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 17-Oct-2016 19:12 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-Oct-2016 20:20 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Oct-2016 03:56 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Oct-2016 18:38 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Registration, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Oct-2016 19:27 | Anon. | Updated [Phase] |
| 18-Oct-2016 20:07 | Aerossurance | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 21-Oct-2016 05:51 | Anon. | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport] |
| 14-Sep-2017 17:46 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative] |
| 26-Jan-2020 12:09 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, Embed code] |
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