ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 184124
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| Date: | Sunday 18 June 1989 |
| Time: | 08:20 |
| Type: |  Beechcraft B55 Baron |
| Owner/operator: | Walsh Brothers (Tunnelling) Ltd |
| Registration: | G-AYKA |
| MSN: | TC-523 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Elstree Aerodrome, Elstree, Hertfordshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Elstree, Hertfordshire (ETR/EGTR) |
| Elstree, Hertfordshire (ETR/EGTR) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 18-06-1989 when belly landed at Elstree Aerodrome, Elstree, Hertfordshire due to undercarriage failure; the AAIB report is unclear as to whether it was an undercarriage collapse or if the undercarriage failed to lower (or a combination of both). The root of the accident was due to failure of the radio equipment during the initial climb out phase from Elstree. According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:
[due to failure of the radio equipment...] "The pilot decided to return to Elstree and land. When positioned on the downwind leg, he selected the landing gear DOWN, and, although both he and the two passengers believed that they both heard and felt the landing gear lower, neither the GEAR UNSAFE nor the GEAR DOWN lights illuminated
However, the mechanical position indicator (for the nose landing gear only) appeared to show that the landing gear was extended. Both the landing gear and the flaps are extended electrically, and when the pilot selected 15 degrees of flaps, the extended to 5 degrees only and then stopped
As the pilot had no radio contact with the ATC at Elstree, on his final approach he attempted to flash the landing lights in order to draw attention to the emergency situation, and then continued with the landing. On touch down both propellers struck the runway simultaneously, and the aircraft slid on its belly to a halt for about 150 metres.
The pilot stated that he then saw smoke emerging from the left engine. He and the two other persons on board then evacuated from the aircraft".
Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report "engine, propeller, landing gear doors and fuselage skin damaged". The damage was presumably enough to render the airframe as "beyond economic repair" as the registration G-AYKA was cancelled by the CAA six months later, on 28-02-1990.
The fuselage of G-AYKA was sent to a training college in Shoreham, West Sussex, where it was converted into a kind of road vehicle by fitting it to a chassis, engine and wheels. By 2012, the "Baron Mobile" was at Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/5422f16ded915d1371000375/Beech_95-B55A__G-AYKA_11-89.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=AYKA
3. http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=11597
Media:
The forward fuselage of Baron G-AYKA was converted into a road vehicle. Seen during the 2012 Cold War Jets Day. Bruntingthorpe. 06-5-2012:
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Feb-2016 20:31 | Dr.John Smith | Added |
| 01-Feb-2016 20:42 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 01-Feb-2016 20:43 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 01-Feb-2016 21:01 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 02-Feb-2016 16:24 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 03-Feb-2016 16:28 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 03-Feb-2016 16:29 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 05-Jun-2023 06:57 | Ron Averes | Updated [[Narrative]] |
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