ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 181326
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| Date: | Saturday 10 November 1984 |
| Time: | 13:35 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | G-BGCH |
| MSN: | 38-78A0569 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Wellesbourne Mountford, 4 miles E of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield (EGBW) |
| Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield (EGBW) | |
| Investigating agency: | AIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 10/11/1984 in a heavy landing during dual flying training instruction at Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield, 4 miles E of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"During a dual instruction flight, short field landings were being practised by a student who had a total of 28 hours flying experience. On the fourth circuit, the student flared the aircraft some 10 feet above the runway, and then moved the control column sharply forward. Despite an attempted recovery by the instructor the aircraft struck the ground heavily, and the nose wheel broke off.
The aircraft continued along the runway. eventually veering off to the right, the propeller contacting the ground. There was no fire, and the two pilots (instructor and pilot under training) evacuated the aircraft without injury."
Damage sustained to airframe: Nose wheel detached, propeller bent, some damage to the engine cowlings. This would seem to have rendered the aircraft as "damaged beyond economical repair", ass the registration G-BGCH was cancelled by the CAA on 24/6/1986 (some nineteen months later) as "Permanently withdrawn from use"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB; https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/542304c9ed915d1371000cd1/Piper_PA_38_Tomahawk_G-BGCH_01-85.pdf
2. CAA: http://www.caa.co.uk/aircraft-registration/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 14-Nov-2015 17:58 | Dr.John Smith | Added |
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