ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 181324
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| Date: | Saturday 14 November 2015 |
| Time: | 11:40 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage |
| Owner/operator: | WWSL Inc Trustee (reg owner) |
| Registration: | N186CB |
| MSN: | 4622085 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1990 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Buttles Farm, near Churchinford, Somerset -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Fairoaks Airport, Surrey (EGTF) |
| Dunkeswell, Honiton, Devon (EGTU) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Four people from the same family were killed after a six-seater light aircraft crashed Buttles Farm, near Churchinford, Somerset. Avon and Somerset police received an emergency call at 11:44. All four persons on board - a 56-year-old man, a 55-year-old woman, a 23-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man - were pronounced dead at the crash site.
The AAIB accident report was published on 10-11-2016, and the following is the summary from that report:
"The aircraft was approaching Dunkeswell Airfield, Devon after an uneventful flight from Fairoaks, Surrey. The weather at Dunkeswell was overcast, with rain. The pilot held an IMC1 rating but there is no published instrument approach procedure at Dunkeswell. As the aircraft turned onto the final approach, it commenced a descent on what appeared to be a normal approach path but then climbed rapidly, probably entering cloud. The aircraft then seems to have stalled, turned left and descended to “just below the clouds”, before it climbed steeply again and “disappeared into cloud”. Shortly after, the aircraft was observed descending out of the cloud in a steep nose-down attitude, in what appears to have been a spin, before striking the ground. All four occupants were fatally injured.
The investigation was unable to determine why the aircraft made the initial rapid climb but there was some evidence to suggest that the pilot may have manually overridden the autopilot, during the initial descent, without realising it was still engaged. This would have caused an out-of-trim condition that could have contributed to the aircraft pitching up rapidly. Evaluation flights showed that the pitch attitude achieved during this manoeuvre would have been disorientating for the pilot and may explain why control was not regained."
(www.ogimet.com) Exeter Metar SA14/11/2015 11:50->METAR EGTE 141150Z 21014KT 9999 -RA SCT020 BKN035 11/10 Q1022=SA14/11/2015 11:20->METAR EGTE 141120Z 20009KT 9999 -RA SCT020 BKN035 10/10 Q1023=
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57ff8dd140f0b67135000004/Piper_PA-46-350P_Malibu_Mirage_N186CB_11-16.pdf
2. FAA: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?omni=Home-N-Number&nNumberTxt=186CB
NTSB
4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34822189
5. http://web.archive.org/web/20160630153956/https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/newsroom/fatal-light-aircraft-crash-in-somerset/
6. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/619448/Plane-crash-Somerset-four-dead
7. http://www.itv.com/news/2015-11-14/four-dead-after-light-aircraft-crashed-into-a-field/
8. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3318584/Two-men-two-women-killed-light-aircraft-crashes-Somerset-village.html
9. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/15/somerset-plane-crash-four-dead-from-same-family
10. http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/001076440.html
11. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/somerset-plane-crash-pictures-show-6835710#ICID=sharebar_twitter
Images:
Media:
First pictures of wrecked plane after light aircraft crash in Somerset https://t.co/tQ0PQ3L176 pic.twitter.com/ZHRLA0oQGM
— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) November 15, 2015
The AAIB has sent a team to investigate an accident to a light aircraft near Churchinford, Somerset
— AAIB (@aaibgovuk) November 14, 2015Four people have died after the light aircraft they were in crashed in a field near Churchinford #Somerset https://t.co/hCzxERLAV3
— Avon&Somerset Police (@ASPolice) November 14, 2015Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 14-Nov-2015 16:43 | Aerossurance | Added |
| 14-Nov-2015 16:49 | Aerossurance | Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Nov-2015 16:50 | Aerossurance | Updated [Destination airport, Narrative, Plane category] |
| 14-Nov-2015 16:56 | Geno | Updated [Time, Location, Destination airport, Source] |
| 14-Nov-2015 17:28 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Total occupants, Other fatalities, Nature, Embed code, Damage] |
| 15-Nov-2015 07:52 | MarkStep | Updated [Source, Embed code] |
| 15-Nov-2015 12:17 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Source] |
| 15-Nov-2015 12:26 | harro | Updated [Embed code] |
| 15-Nov-2015 13:57 | Aerossurance | Updated [Time, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 15-Nov-2015 14:52 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 15-Nov-2015 16:50 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Cn, Operator, Source] |
| 15-Nov-2015 17:48 | Geno | Updated [Source] |
| 15-Nov-2015 18:20 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Embed code, Narrative, Photo, ] |
| 23-Nov-2015 20:05 | KasmeridisC | Updated [Narrative] |
| 03-Oct-2016 12:41 | Aerossurance | Updated [Time, Operator, Location] |
| 07-Oct-2016 13:57 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source] |
| 10-Nov-2016 16:18 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Nov-2016 16:27 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 10-Nov-2016 16:31 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:30 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
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