ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 191853
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Date: | Sunday 4 December 2016 |
Time: | 12:40 |
Type: | Cessna 150L |
Owner/operator: | Go Fly Oxford Aircraft Rentals |
Registration: | G-CSFC |
MSN: | 15075360 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | Lubenham, 2 miles west of Market Harborough, Leicestershire -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Hinton-in-the-Hedges, near Brackley, Northamptonshire |
Destination airport: | Leicester Airport, Stoughton, Leicestershire (EGBG) |
Investigating agency: | AAIB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:A Cessna 150L, G-CSFC, and a glider suffered a mid-air collision over Lubenham, Leicstershire, U.K. The glider crashed, killing the pilot. The Cessna landed safely with damage to the right hand wing tip.
UPDATE: The official AAIB report into the accident was published 14.9.2017, and the following is the conclusion from that report:
"The accident occurred because the pilots did not see each other’s aircraft in sufficient time to take effective avoiding action. Collision avoidance was by lookout and visual detection, which has limitations, and the low sun would have reduced the likelihood of the pilot of G-CLJK seeing G-CSFC in time.
G-CLJK was fitted with FLARM but G-CSFC was not fitted with such a system. Therefore, there was no electronic means to increase the ability to detect other aircraft in the vicinity to allow for effective collision avoidance. The CAA have since issued CAP 1391 and are part of CWG which promotes the installation of EC devices in aircraft."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | AAIB |
Report number: | EW/C2016/12/01 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
1. AAIB:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/59afe854e5274a180e3705d5/SZD-51-1_Junior_glider_G-CLJK_and_Cessna_150L_G-CSFC_09-17.pdf 2. CAA:
https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/ 3.
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/man-killed-in-glider-crash/story-29956463-detail/story.html 4.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2326107/pilot-dead-after-glider-crashes-into-field-in-lubenham-after-mid-air-collision-with-light-aircraft/ 5.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3999184/Man-killed-glider-smashed-light-aircraft-skies-Leicestershire.html 6.
https://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/news/glider-tragedy-update-investigators-believe-pilot-may-have-died-in-mid-air-collision-1-7711883 7.
http://www.itv.com/news/central/2016-12-04/man-dies-after-glider-collides-with-light-aircraft/ 8.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-38203019 9.
https://www.pprune.org/private-flying/587798-glider-cessna-midair-collision.html Media:
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Dec-2016 20:49 |
Dr.John Smith |
Added |
04-Dec-2016 20:53 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Location, Embed code] |
05-Dec-2016 05:57 |
JINX |
Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn] |
05-Dec-2016 06:52 |
jan olieslagers |
Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source] |
05-Dec-2016 06:56 |
harro |
Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, Damage, Narrative, Plane category] |
05-Dec-2016 09:00 |
Anon. |
Updated [Source] |
06-Dec-2016 13:12 |
h2g2bloke |
Updated [Other fatalities] |
20-Dec-2016 13:04 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Total occupants, Location] |
14-Sep-2017 18:24 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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