Date:	Monday 23 December 2024
Time:	day
Type:	Guimbal Cabri G2
Owner/operator:	Amit Verma
Registration:	G-SHRU
MSN:	1068
Year of manufacture:	2014
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	None
Location:	Bicester Airfield (EGDD) -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:
Destination airport:	Bicester Airfield (EGDD)

Narrative:
23 December 2024: Guimbal Cabri G2 G-SHRU significantly damage in a 'hard" landing at Bicester Airfield, Bicester, Oxfordshire. The incident was the subject of an AAIB Record-only Investigation, and the following is the summary from the AAIB Report, published on 13 February 2025:

"The helicopter landed hard, bounced, landed again and remained upright. Both skids were damaged".

Damage Sustained to airframe
Per the AAIB report "both skids were damaged"

Built 2014: Ex-G-UMBL (2 Mar 2014 to 25 August 2021). Re-registered as G-SHRU 25 August 2021

1. AAIB Record-only investigations reviewed: November - December 2024 (Published 13 February 2025): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/aaib-record-only-investigations-reviewed-november-december-2024/aaib-record-only-investigations-reviewed-november-december-2024
2. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/G-SHRU.html
3. https://www.helis.com/database/cn/40968/
4. https://www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/G-SHRU/
5. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-umbl
6. Earlier incident (as G-UMBL) Halfpenny Green, Wolverhampton 21 April 2022: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/aaib-record-only-investigations-may-june-2022/aaib-record-only-investigations-reviewed-may-june-2022
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicester_Airfield#Recent_History

Other occurrences involving this aircraft


21 April 2022

G-SHRU

Pathology Testing Ltd (regd. owner)

0

Halfpenny Green Airport (EGBO)

sub

G-SHRU (in previous registration as G-UMBL) at Middle Wallop,Hampshire,7 April 2018

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
14-Feb-2025 13:17	Dr. John Smith	Added