ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 25287
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| Date: | Monday 22 January 1979 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Partenavia P.68B Victor |
| Owner/operator: | Business Air Travel Ltd |
| Registration: | G-BEUT |
| MSN: | 97 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Romney Marsh, 6 miles SW of Lydd Airport, Lydd, Kent -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Dublin Airport, Dublin, Eire (DUB) |
| Lydd Airport, Kent (LYX/EGMD) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Partenavia P.68 G-BEUT: Written off (destroyed) when crashed at Romney Marsh, 6 miles south west of Lydd Airport, Lydd, Kent on 22/01/1979. While approaching Lydd Airport in poor weather conditions, the pilot lost control of the airplane and crashed six miles southwest of the airfield. The aircraft was destroyed and all three occupants (pilot and two passengers) were killed.
Probable cause: Loss of control while conducting a non precision approach in a snowstorm. A contemporary report in "Flight International" (see link #3) gives the cause of the crash as a "non-precision approach in a snowstorm"
Registration G-BEUT belatedly cancelled by the CAA as aircraft "destroyed" on 22/8/1979
Sources:
1. CAA: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-BEUT.pdf
2. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-partenavia-p68b-near-lydd-3-killed
3. https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1980/1980
4. https://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=17563.0
5. https://www.spottingmode.com/partenavia_p.68/cn/rundown/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 11-Nov-2012 15:52 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Jul-2013 00:49 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 15-Jul-2015 09:25 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Nov-2020 19:14 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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