Date:	Thursday 5 April 2012
Time:	16:00 LT
Type:	de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen FAW.2
Owner/operator:	Drilling Systems Ltd.
Registration:	G-CVIX
MSN:	10125
Year of manufacture:	1963
Engine model:	Rolls-Royce Avon MK 208
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Minor
Location:	Bournemouth Airport, Parley Lane, Christchurch, Dorset -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Test
Departure airport:	Bournemouth Airport, Hurn (EGHH)
Destination airport:	Bournemouth Airport, Hurn (EGHH)
Investigating agency:	AAIB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
After a brief test flight, from Bournemouth Airport - EGHH, the undercarriage of a De Havilland DH-110 Sea Vixen FAW2 would not lock. Later three green were confirmed but on roll out the nosewheel collapsed.

Per the summary to the official AAIB report into the incident: "During the latter stages of the landing roll, whilst completing the after landing checklist, the pilot inadvertently selected the landing gear to up which resulted in the retraction of the nose and left main landing gear. The operation of the left main landing gear micro switch on landing should have prevented retraction. However, it is thought that a combination of an increase in main landing gear oleo pressure, to allow for increased weight operations, and a low landing weight prevented the activation of the micro switch."

The pilot escaped unhurt.

1. eye witness reports
2. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422f546e5274a1317000587/DH110_Sea_Vixen_Faw_Mk2_G-CVIX_10-12.pdf
3. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/
4. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/9635534.Runway_closed_at_Bournemouth_Airport_after_Sea_Vixen_incident/r/?ref=rss]
5. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126128/Worlds-remaining-air-worthy-Sea-Vixen-plane-crashes-Bournemouth-Airport.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
6. https://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/481867-sea-vixen-incident-bournemouth-today.html

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Apr-2012 09:34	sharla	Added
05-Apr-2012 09:36	harro	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Narrative]
05-Apr-2012 11:35	Geno	Updated [Source]
05-Apr-2012 16:18	RobertMB	Updated [Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Damage, Narrative]
06-Apr-2012 13:52	Alpine Flight	Updated [Time, Aircraft type]
24-Apr-2012 01:04	karyan70	Updated [Source]
10-Sep-2012 16:02	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Embed code]
10-Jun-2013 00:56	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
24-Dec-2016 00:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code]