Gear-up landing Incident Piper PA-28-180B Cherokee G-AWEY,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 16430
 
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Date:Friday 25 July 1969
Time:daytime
Type:Silhouette image of generic P28A model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Piper PA-28-180B Cherokee
Owner/operator:Peak Trailers Ltd
Registration: G-AWEY
MSN: 28R-30612
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Castle Lyons, 3.7 miles S of Fermoy, Munster, County Cork -   Ireland
Phase: Take off
Nature:Private
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative:
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed 25/7/1969, after getting lost in mist, fog, and low cloud, at Castle Lyons, 3.7 miles south Fermoy, Munster, County Cork, Ireland. Aircraft force landed out of fuel, and belly landed; no casualties reported.

Registration G-AWEY cancelled by the CAA belatedly on 29/2/1984 (almost 15 years later!) as "destroyed"

Sources:

1. https://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AWEY.pdf
2. Yorkshire Air News (November 1969): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32778518/1969%2011.pdf
3. http://www.kennellyarchive.com/search-all/690149/
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlelyons

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
25-Mar-2008 13:00 ASN archive Added
09-Aug-2015 10:26 Dr. John Smith Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative]

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