ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 89994
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| Date: | Tuesday 17 April 2007 |
| Time: | 15:43 LT |
| Type: |  Aero Designs Pulsar |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | G-BULM |
| MSN: | PFA 202-1201 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1994 |
| Engine model: | Rotax 582 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Dairy House Farm Airstrip, near Worleston, Nantwich, Cheshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Lymm Dam Airfield, Croughley Lane, Lymm, Cheshire |
| Dairy House Farm Airstrip, Nantwich, Cheshire | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (destroyed) 17-04-2007 when crashed at Dairy House Farm Airstrip, Aston Juxta Mondrum, Worleston, near
Nantwich, Cheshire. The pilot (the sole person on board) was killed. According to the following excerpt from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"The pilot attempted to return the aircraft to the runway after it suffered a loss of power shortly after take off. The aircraft had insufficient performance to complete this manoeuvre and stalled before the pilot was able to make a controlled landing.
In their statements, each witness stated that the initial climb over the runway appeared normal but that, at a height of approximately 100 to 150 feet, the engine “coughed”. The engine sound returned to normal briefly but, as the aircraft passed over the end of the runway, the engine coughed again. The aircraft then made what one witness described as a coordinated turn to the right until it was flying almost parallel to the runway in the opposite direction to takeoff, losing height as it did so.
All of the witnesses reported that the propeller had stopped turning. At a height of approximately 60 feet the aircraft entered a tight turn to the right and impacted the ground in a field north of the airstrip, separated from it by a double railway line".
The pilot was killed. Local media reports named him as John Bell, aged 51, from Wilmslow. Registration G-BULM cancelled by the CAA on 03.12.2007 as "destroyed"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422f865e5274a1317000717/Pulsar__G-BULM_03-08.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=BULM
3. https://www.pprune.org/private-flying/272410-light-c-down-nantwich.html
4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/6566669.stm
5. http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/1337363.lymm_bound_flight_crashes/
6. https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=431868
7. https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/pilot-killed-as-plane-crashes-989066
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Feb-2011 15:04 | harro | Added |
| 18-Sep-2012 17:19 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 12-Oct-2012 18:26 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 07-Dec-2014 18:25 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Sep-2016 22:25 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Sep-2016 22:32 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Departure airport] |
| 06-Sep-2016 22:35 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Source] |
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