ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 213283
Last updated: 17 January 2021
This information is added by users of ASN. Neither ASN nor the Flight Safety Foundation are responsible for the completeness or correctness of this information.
If you feel this information is incomplete or incorrect, you can submit corrected information.
| Date: | 10-JUL-1969 |
| Time: | 17:20 |
| Type: |  Cessna 150G |
| Owner/operator: | Gilgandra Aero Club Ltd |
| Registration: | VH-KVQ |
| C/n / msn: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Gilgandra, NSW -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Gilgandra, NSW |
| Gilgandra, NSW | |
| Investigating agency: | BASI |
The aircraft was flown to the training area for revision exercises, which included simulated forced landings. After satisfactorily completing a number of exercises, including one forced landing, the student climbed the aircraft to 3,000 feet where the instructor again closed the throttle to simulate an engine failure. The student selected a field and established a flight pattern for a landing into wind. The instructor states that he believed that the field selected was of marginal length and he decided to allow the approach to continue to below the normal break-off height so that the student could appreciate this fact. Neither pilot observed during descent that two electricity supply lines crossed the flight path at approximately a sixty degree angle. The wires were first seen by the student when about ten feet away and just as the instructor was about to call "go-around". The aircraft struck the wires and came to rest in the field on its landing gear.
Sources:
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1969/aair/aair196901155/
https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/24463/196901155.pdf
Accident investigation:
 |
|
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 14-Jul-2018 23:02 | Pineapple | Added |
Corrections or additions? ... Edit this accident description