Date:	13-NOV-1983
Time:	12:10 LT
Type:	Cessna F150L (Reims)
Owner/operator:	Crepeshaw Ltd t/a Vectair Aviation (regd. owners)
Registration:	G-ETUP
C/n / msn:	F150-01106
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Category:	Accident
Location:	Delme Arms Roundabout, Railway Viaduct, Fareham Creek, Fareham -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Goodwood, West Sussex (EGHR)
Destination airport:	Goodwood, West Sussex (EGHR)
Investigating agency:	AIB

Narrative:
Cessna F150L (Reims) G-ETUP: Crashed and destroyed 13 November 1983 Crashed Into the ‘Railway Viaduct’, landing into the river Wallington, Delme Arms Roundabout, Fareham, Hampshire. Pilot Stuart Savage (flying solo) was killed.

According to the AAIB report, the pilot had tried to fly the Cessna through one of the arches of a railway viaduct near Wallington, Hampshire, just east of Fareham. The Cessna failed to achieve this - the AAIB report states that it would have been impossible, as the span of the arches is less than the wingspan of a Cessna F150 - and, at the last minute, there was an attempt to climb, and fly over (rather than through) the viaduct. The aircraft was destroyed in the impact with the viaduct, and the wreckage fell to the ground, inverted.

One final twist was the later Coroners Inquest into the deceased pilot: the Jury ruled a verdict of "suicide", which implies that the Cessna was deliberately flown into the viaduct.

A contemporary local newspaper report adds a little more, but still doesn't make any "suicide" reference ("Aberdeen Press and Journal" - Monday 14 November 1983):

"A PILOT was killed yesterday when his light aircraft crashed into a railway viaduct only 20 yards from a pub packed with lunchtime drinkers. Salesman Mr Stuart Savage (34), from Hillpound, Swanmoore, Hampshire, an experienced gliding instructor from Lasham Airfield Hampshire, died in hospital about three hours after his two-seater Cessna 150 struck the viaduct above the busy A27 at Fareham".

The pub referred to is the Delme Arms, 1 Cams Hill, Portchester, Fareham PO16 8QY (see link #9). Registration G-ETUP cancelled by the CAA (aircraft de-registered) 26 September 1984 as "destroyed"

1. Daily Mirror Monday 14 November 1983
2. Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 14 November 1983
3. Air Britain: British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919 to 1999 (published 1999)
4. AAIB Final Report: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/542300a140f0b61346000b2b/Cessna_F150L_G-ETUP_02-84.pdf
5. CAA Registration: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ETUP.pdf
6. G-ETUP at Liverpool Speke (EGGP) 16-8-1979: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1579046
7. http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html
8. https://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=17847.0
9. https://delmearms.co.uk/

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-May-2008 11:10	ASN archive	Added
12-Jul-2008 08:39	leestuartevans	Updated
09-Sep-2009 03:41	harro	Updated
28-Sep-2011 02:45	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
01-Jun-2013 02:26	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]
22-Jun-2014 18:43	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
14-Jan-2019 19:46	“Lister”	Updated [Location, Narrative]
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17-Nov-2020 14:52	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
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