Accident Gulfstream American AA-5A Cheetah G-BHWR, Monday 6 July 1987

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Date:	Monday 6 July 1987
Time:	13:50
Type:	Gulfstream American AA-5A Cheetah
Owner/operator:	Denham School of Flying Ltd
Registration:	G-BHWR
MSN:	AA5A-0793
Year of manufacture:	1979
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Denham Aerodrome, Denham, Buckinghamshire - United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Denham, Buckinghamshire (EGLD)
Destination airport:	Denham, Buckinghamshire (EGLD)
Investigating agency:	AAIB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 6/7/1987 when stalled and crashed due to a missed approach at Denham Aerodrome, Denham, Buckinghamshire. According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:

"Following a normal approach, with full flap, the student pilot flared the aircraft for landing when slightly too high. The instructor took control of the aircraft and applied full power for a go around. The aircraft was seen to adopt a nose-high attitude, but failed to gain height, and shortly afterwards, it struck the ground to the right of the runway."

Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report, aircraft "damaged beyond economic repair". However, the owners of G-BHWR did not agree! Instead, the airframe was repaired, and restored to the UK register with a new registration, as G-OMOG. As G-OMOG, the aircraft was written off in a separate accident on 25/9/1990 at Compton Abbas Airfield, Wiltshire

Accident investigation: