ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 33386
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| Date: | Monday 15 May 2000 |
| Time: | 10:48 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna F152 II (Reims) |
| Owner/operator: | Multiflight Ltd |
| Registration: | G-BPVJ |
| MSN: | 152-82596 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1978 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-235-L2C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Dallowgill, Low Carle Edge, near Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Leeds-Bradford Airport (LBA/EGNM) |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (damaged beyond repair) on 15th May 2000: the student pilot was undertaking a training flight with an experienced pilot, the flight was to teach the pupil about stall/spin awareness. After a number of stall exercises, which the pilot corrected, the instructor put the aircraft into a left hand spin, the student was unable to pull out of the spin, and the instructor then attempted a recovery but there was no response from the aircraft.
Nearing the ground the instructor was able to pull the nose up but just prior to hitting the ground at 10:48 hours in the Dallowgill area of Fountains Moor, on Low Carle Edge, about two miles from Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire. The aircraft broke up on impact trapping one of the men, the accident was witnessed by the crew of a Royal Navy and Army Lynx helicopter who returned to Dishforth to re-fuel but then returned to the crash site having picked up an Army medic, Corp. David Southworth, who initially treated the injured men.
The civilian rescue services later arrived at the crash site and cut the trapped pilot free, both men were taken to the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton by RAF Sea King helicopter.
Instructor Pilot - Captain David Bower, of Burnsall, Skipton. Suffered spinal injuries.
Student Pilot - Mr Bernard Merlino, aged 35, of Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Suffered leg injuries.
NOTE; according to the official AAIB investigation into the accident, the crash site was "Hambleton Hill, 15 miles north of Leeds Bradford Airport"
Registration G-BPVJ was cancelled by the CAA on 15 September 2000 as aircraft "destroyed"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422fd16e5274a131700091d/dft_avsafety_pdf_500462.pdf
2. CAA; https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=BPVJ
3. http://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/planes/dales/bpvj.html
4. https://www.pprune.org/flying-instructors-examiners/14220-multiflight-152-accident-15-may.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 12-Oct-2011 02:57 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 07-Feb-2015 06:02 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-Jul-2016 13:29 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
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