ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 147749
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| Date: | Thursday 16 August 2012 |
| Time: | 20:40 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk |
| Owner/operator: | Flintshire Flying School Ltd |
| Registration: | G-BODP |
| MSN: | 38-81A0010 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-235-L2C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Chapel Lane, Bruera, Churton, near Chester, Cheshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Hawarden Airport (CEG/EGNR) |
| Hawarden Airport (CEG/EGNR) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The instructor and student were conducting PPL training for slow flight aircraft handling. At an estimated height of between 2,000 and 3,000 ft, the aircraft turned rapidly through about 180° and descended at a high rate, crashing in a field. The evidence indicated that the aircraft had been in a spin to the left when it struck the surface. Both occupants were fatally injured.
A manufacturer’s revision to the Pilot’s Operating Handbook (POH), dated May 2012, included advice on the altitudes at which slow flight and stall manoeuvres should be initiated, to provide an adequate margin of safety in the event of an inadvertent spin. This revision, which related to a Safety Recommendation made by the United States of America’s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in 1997, reached the flying school in the month following the accident.
Aircraft written off (damaged beyond repair) and the registration G-BODP was cancelled by the CAA on 7 March 2013 as "destroyed"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422fb3aed915d137100081d/Piper_PA-38-112_Tomahawk_G-BODP_06-13.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/
NTSB
4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-19290501
5. http://www.wrexham.com/news/light-aircraft-crash-outskirts-wrexham-11126.html
6. https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=78566
7. https://www.pprune.org/private-flying/493149-light-aircraft-down-chester.html
8. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18608871
9. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19319228
10. http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2014/06/karl-hendrickson-student-pilot-and-john.html
Media:
The AAIB has sent a team to investigate an accident to a PA38 near Bruera, Cheshire.
— AAIB (@aaibgovuk) August 16, 2012
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Aug-2012 01:30 | gerard57 | Added |
| 17-Aug-2012 02:02 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Source] |
| 18-Aug-2012 15:06 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 30-Aug-2012 19:34 | Geno | Updated [Time, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 12-Jul-2013 13:05 | harro | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Oct-2014 22:50 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Oct-2015 23:04 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Embed code] |
| 12-Feb-2016 01:48 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Embed code] |
| 06-Jan-2017 15:19 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Embed code] |
| 06-Jan-2017 15:35 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Embed code] |
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