Date:	Thursday 25 June 2020
Time:	21:10
Type:	Savannah VG Jabiru
Owner/operator:	Private
Registration:	G-CGTV
MSN:	BMAA/HB/609
Year of manufacture:	2011
Engine model:	Jabiru 2200
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Scurf Dyke Farm, Hutton Cranswick, near Driffield, East Yorkshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Scurf Dyke Farm, near Driffield, East Yorkshire
Destination airport:	Beverley/Linley Hill Airport (EGNY)
Investigating agency:	AAIB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
AAIB investigation to Savannah VG Jabiru, G-CGTV: Inadvertent flap deployment, Scurf Dyke Farm, near Driffield, East Yorkshire, 25 June 2020. The Final AAIB report was published on 14 January 2021, and the following is an excerpt from it:

"Synopsis
During takeoff the aircraft struck a bump causing the pilot’s knee to touch the flap lever, which then moved from the 20° to the 40° position. Shortly after takeoff the pilot felt the left wing start to stall, and the aircraft subsequently struck a stack of hay bales.

History of the Flight
The pilot had prepared for a local evening flight from his home farm strip to Beverley Airfield and after completing the pre-flight checks, he lined the aircraft up on an easterly heading to take off into a light wind. The farm strip was approximately 220 metre long, dry, cut-grass pasture with power lines at the eastern end and farm buildings to the north.

With the flaps set to the normal take off configuration of 20 degrees, he commenced the take off roll. Approximately two thirds along the ground roll, the pilot reported that he felt one of the main wheels strike a bump which caused his knee to touch the flap lever. The flaps then deployed to full flaps of 40 degrees. The aircraft started to climb at very low speed and was close to stalling. To avoid a stall, the pilot lowered the nose, but was conscious that he needed to maintain enough height to avoid the power lines at the end of the strip.

Having cleared the power lines, he reported that he felt the left wing starting to stall and so applied left rudder and lowered the nose further. The aircraft veered to the left and struck a stack of hay bales at approximately 10 m above the ground. It then struck the ground tail first before coming to rest. The pilot was able to turn off the fuel before exiting the aircraft with only minor injuries".

Damage sustained to airframe:
Per the above AAIB report "Aircraft Destroyed". A photograph in the AAIB report shows G-CGTV to have been twisted into a "banana" shape, with the forward fuselage bent upwards at 45 degrees. The registration G-CGTV was cancelled by the CAA (and the airframe de-registered) on 1 December 2022 as "Permanently withdrawn from use".

Scurf Dyke Farm, Hutton Cranswick, near Driffield, East Yorkshire seems to have been a very short lived airstrip (2018-2020) located about 1.5 nautical miles South East of Hutton Cranswick village, 4.5 nautical miles South South-East of Driffield town centre. From July 2020, the airfield seems have become disused, with the airstrip becoming a solar farm, covered in solar panels. When it was operational it had one grass runway orientated roughly East/West and about 220 metres in length.

1. AAIB Final Report: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5fd8b2dce90e071be9196fd8/Savannah_VG_G-CGTV_01-21.pdf
2. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/G-CGTV.html
3. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4088256
4. https://www.radarbox.com/data/registration/G-CGTV
5. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-cgtv
6. https://www.ukairfieldguide.net/airfields/Scurf-Dyke-Farm

Photo: AAIB

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
14-Jan-2021 19:09	Dr. John Smith	Added
14-Jan-2021 20:37	harro	Updated [Operator, Embed code, Accident report, Photo, ]
26-Oct-2024 07:22	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative, Category, ]