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| Date: | Thursday 11 August 1983 |
| Time: | 18:40 LT |
| Type: |  Jodel DR.1050 Ambassadeur |
| Owner/operator: | Lewis Geoffrey Earnshaw & Partners |
| Registration: | G-AWEN |
| MSN: | 67 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Crossland Moor Airfield, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Crossland Moor, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (EGND) |
| Crossland Moor, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (EGND) | |
| Investigating agency: | AIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Ex-F-BIVD, built July 1959; first registered in the UK as G-AWN on 8.3.68. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 11.8.83: swung off the runway to the right on landing at Crossland Moor Airfield, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. As the pilot was unable to stop the Jodel in time to prevent a collision with a dry stone wall at the airfield perimeter, he deliberately ground looped the aircraft, to minimize the damage on impact.
Despite this, Jodel G-AWEN sustained damage to its left wing, undercarriage and propellor. The damage was considered to be "substantial", and there is no evidence that G-AWEN ever flew again, and the registration was cancelled by the CAA on 28.11.91 (eight years later)
It is reported that large parts of G-AWEN were later salvaged and used in the construction of Jodel DR.1050-250 G-DAST (which was first registered 27.6.2000). According to the builder of G-DAST: "My project is from plans, but using the remains of the fuselage of G-AWEN [s/n 67] - with new tail fin,rudder and tailplane, new back end and extensively modified around the cabin to form the DR.200. Wing will be built form scratch as DR.250 - for which I have found plans. I am working on the undercarriage at the moment but have the undercarriage from G-BLRJ [s/n 502] as a donor."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/Jodel%20DR%201050%20G-AWEN%2011-83.pdf
2. http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AWEN.pdf
3. http://www.avions-jodel.de/Privat/Jodel/Pictures/Jodel_DR.1050_G-AWEN_sn67_Old_Warden_around_1980_pic_by_DJThomas.jpg
4. http://www.avions-jodel.de/Privat/Jodel/jodel_dr100_series_list.htmll
5. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1037294/
6. http://www.flydw.org.uk/DWJ100A.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Jun-2014 02:03 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 12-Nov-2014 21:49 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Embed code, Narrative, ] |
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