ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 89980
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| Date: | Tuesday 8 February 2005 |
| Time: | 11:00 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-28-161 Cherokee Warrior II |
| Owner/operator: | Falcon Flying Services Ltd |
| Registration: | G-BHIL |
| MSN: | 28-8016069 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-320-D3G |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Maidstone Road, Horsmonden, near Paddock Wood, Kent -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Illegal Flight |
| Departure airport: | Zwartberg, Genk, Belgium (EBZW) |
| Shoreham, West Sussex (EGKA) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
G-BHIL was returning to the UK on a VFR flight from Zwartberg Airfield, near Genk in Belgium. Although the final destination was Shoreham, it was likely that the pilot intended to land at Old Hay farm strip in Kent, before continuing to Shoreham. The weather in Belgium was good but large areas of patchy fog covered the south east of England. The pilot was using a combination of GPS and visual navigation but, towards the end of the flight, was following the line of the railway between Ashford and Tonbridge.
When 2.7 miles to the east of his destination, he appeared to have been unable to continue and commenced a series of climbing and descending manoeuvres in and out of the fog. Whilst in a descending right turn, the aircraft crashed into a grass field, at Maidstone Road, Horsmonden, near Paddock Wood, Kent, fatally injuring the pilot.
Aircraft may have been involved in smuggling illicit cargo: the AAIB report noted: "Found amongst the contents of the aircraft were large quantities of Class C drugs" (22 kilos of herbal cannabis, with an alleged "street value" of £40,000) "and tobacco"
Registration G-BHIL cancelled by the CAA 20.10.2005 as aircraft "destroyed"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422fc96ed915d13710008d7/Piper_PA-28-161_Cherokee_Warrior_II__G-BHIL_8-05.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=BHIL
3. http://www.horsmonden.co.uk/aircraft-crashes-in-horsmonden/
4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/kent/4246793.stm_/default.stm
5. https://www.pprune.org/private-flying/162576-light-aircraft-crash-kent-merged.html
6. http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1181517.print/
7. http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/plane-crash-probe-switches-to-su-a17043/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Feb-2011 14:48 | harro | Added |
| 22-Sep-2012 14:48 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 03-Dec-2014 21:55 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 09-Aug-2016 20:04 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Nature, Source] |
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