ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 179652
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| Date: | Sunday 9 September 2012 |
| Time: | 09:21 |
| Type: | Corben Junior Ace Model E |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | G-BSDI |
| MSN: | 3961 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Engine model: | Continental A75-8F |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | White Ox Mead Airstrip, Peasedown St John, 4nm SW of Bath, Somerset -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | White Ox Mead Airstrip, near Bath, Somerset |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 9/9/2012 when crashed during initial climb out from White Ox Mead Airstrip, near Peasedown St John, 4 nautical miles SW of Bath, Somerset. According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"The pilot intended making a solo flight from a private grass strip near Bath. The strip was orientated 06/24 and was 520 metres long by 30 metres wide. The weather was generally fine, with a surface wind from 150 degrees at 9 knots, although this was forecast to gust up to 25 knots by about midday.
Takeoff from Runway 06 was normal initially, but the aircraft was subject to a sudden gust of wind, at about 65 feet above the ground, caused the aircraft to pitch up and roll to the left. Very soon afterwards, the left wing dropped and the aircraft rolled left to about 70 degrees of bank and rapidly lost height.
The pilot was unable to correct the flight path before the aircraft hit the surface of a ploughed field in a nose-down attitude and cartwheeled. The pilot sustained only minor injuries, and attributed this to protection provided by the aircraft’s steel frame and the full harness he was wearing.
The pilot noted that his GPS navigation unit had recorded a rapid ground speed change from 47 knots to 33 knots just prior to the accident, and believed that the aircraft had stalled after the upset, with insufficient power or height to effect a recovery".
This accident was the second tine G-BSDI had crashed in less than seven months; it had previously crashed at White Ox Mead Airstrip, near Peasedown St John, 4nm SW of Bath, Somerset on 25/2/2012. In the second crash on 9/9/2012 the airframe received "extensive" damage. This seems to be enough to render the airframe to have been "damaged beyond economic repair", as the registration G-BSDI was cancelled by the CAA on 29/10/2012 as "Permanently withdrawn from use"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/5422edcfed915d13740001bf/Corben_Junior_Ace_G-BSDI_01-13.pdf
2. CAA: http://www.caa.co.uk/aircraft-registration/
3. Previous crash: https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=179495
4. http://corbenbabyace.weebly.com/holland-junior-ace-single.html
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 25 February 2012 | G-BSDI | Private | 0 | White Ox Mead Airstrip, near Peasedown St John, Bath, Somerset | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Sep-2015 13:19 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 22-Jul-2016 16:27 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Narrative] |
| 22-Jul-2016 16:29 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Embed code] |
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