ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 46997
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| Date: | Saturday 27 September 1997 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Type: |  De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Croydon Air Services |
| Registration: | ZK-BGP |
| MSN: | DHNZ174 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Hindon, Otago -
 New Zealand
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Gore Airport, Gore, Gore District, Southland, South Island (NZGC) |
| Taieri AFB, Dunedin, New Zealand (NZTI) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN DHNZ.174; Taken on charge by the RNZAF as NZ1494 at Unit 18, Rongotai, Wellington 5.2.45. To Central Flying School, Wigram [by 1946]; renamed 1 FTS 14.4.47. Declared surplus on Government Stores Board SR17/55 dated 22.5.55 and sold by tender number 5968 to W W Contracting Co Ltd, Dunedin for £455. Struck off charge 30.6.55.
NZ civil registered as ZK-BGP 12.7.55 to W W Contracting Co Ltd, Dunedin. Badly damaged when ran away at Dunedin 2.10.55; repaired and returned to service. Badly damaged when struck tractor while taxying at Waipahi 23.12.55; repaired and returned to service. Re-registered 28.11.56 to R E McIvor, Ta Anau. Re-registered 6.1.58 to John S Sinclair, Balclutha. Re-registered 4.6.60 to E E Cuttance, Mosgiel. Re-registered 16.1.63 to R J Tapper, Invercargill. Re-registered 22.5.64 to Y P Neill, Dunedin.
Badly damaged when struck fence and overturned on take-off near Rakaria, Ashburton, South Island, New Zealand 25.2.73. Rakaia is a town seated close to the southern banks of the Rakaia River on the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand's South Island, approximately 57 km south of Christchurch on State Highway 1
On rebuild Timaru (1975). Re-registered 8.12.76 to D K Grave, M M McLeay & P J Kane, Invercargill; to Southair Aviation Services Ltd, Taieri (1978) for rebuild with rear fuselage of NZ1427. Damaged in floods Invercargill in 1984.
Re-registered 19.2.86 to J J McLeay, t/a McLeay Trust, Invercargill. Rebuild completed (by 2.91) and to Colin Smith, Gore. Re-registered 25.10.96 Croydon Aircraft Co Ltd (Colin Smith), Mandeville..
Written off (destroyed) when crashed at Hindon, Taieri Gorge, Otago,15 miles northwest of Dunedin, at 17:00 hours on 27.9.97 when the aircraft stalled in a turn and spun into the ground during a flight from Alexandra to Dunedin. Both occupants were killed and the aircraft was destroyed by fire; both persons on board - Jim Harris & Stephen Murrell - were killed. According to the NZ CAA Report into the accident...
"En route to Taieri, ZK-BGP flew alongside an excursion train travelling above a river gorge. The aircraft was flown directly into a moderately strong wind, which resulted in a slow groundspeed.
The margin above the power-off stall speed in this situationmay have been minimal. After flying alongside the train for a few minutes, a right turn was commenced towards the railway track. The turn would have further reduced the margin above the stall speed. During the turn, the right wing and nose dropped sharply and the aircraft entered a spin. There was insufficient height to recover, and the aircraft impacted a rocky area on the gorge slope, immediately catching fire. The two occupants were killed.
Fixation on the train and the illusion of a safe airspeed created by the increasing groundspeed when turning down-wind probably combined to cause the person flying to misjudge the actual airspeed.
It was recommended that the circumstances and findings of this accident be published to serve as a further reminder of the hazards and illusions present in low and slow flight".
Hindon is a small settlement in inland Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand. It is located 24 kilometres (15 mi) northwest of Dunedin in the Silverpeaks Range, close to the edge of the Strath Taieri.
Cancelled from the register on 2.4.98 as "destroyed".
Sources:
1. http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
2. http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/nz-serials/nzdh82.htm
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/pNZ1.html
5. http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac2/NZBA/ZK-BGP.html
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakaia
7. http://www.tigermothclub.co.nz/tech_main_acc1.html
8. http://www.caa.govt.nz/Script/Accident_Details.asp?Oc=97/2867
9. http://www.dehavilland.ukf.net/pNZ1.htm
10. http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Airshows&action=print&thread=11480
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taieri_Gorge
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindon,_New_Zealand
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 8 May 1957 | ZK-BGP | R E McIvor | 0 | Manapouri, Southland | |
sub |
| 25 February 1973 | ZK-BGP | Y. P. Neill | 0 | near Rakaia, Canterbury | |
sub |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Nov-2008 10:35 | ASN archive | Added |
| 20-Apr-2012 12:04 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 22-Oct-2013 18:56 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 22-Jan-2022 22:13 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 26-Jan-2022 04:34 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type, Location] |
| 06-Feb-2022 03:43 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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