ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 182181
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| Date: | Sunday 13 September 2015 |
| Time: | 11:00 |
| Type: | Vierwerk Aerolite 120 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | G-OLAS |
| MSN: | 186D |
| Year of manufacture: | 2015 |
| Engine model: | Polini Thor 200 Evo |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Darley Moor, two miles south of Ashbourne, Derbyshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Darley Moor, Ashbourne, Derbyshire |
| Calton Moor, Swinscoe, Derbyshire | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 13/9/2015 when stalled and crashed on take off from Darley Moor, two miles south of Ashbourne, Derbyshire. The pilot (the sole person on board) sustained only minor injuries. The aircraft had a very short life - it had only been first UK civil registered on 1/9/2015, just two weeks earlier. According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"The owner-pilot had purchased G-OLAS about a week before at the Light Aircraft Association rally at Sywell and flown it direct from the rally to Calton Moor Airfield, which was to be its new base.
On the day of the accident, the pilot had flown the aircraft from Calton Moor to Darley Moor Airfield, some 5 miles to the southeast. Aware that this aircraft type had a crosswind limit of only 8 knots, he had taken a reading of 4 knots of wind using a hand-held anemometer and noted its direction from the windsock and a nearby wind turbine. He opted to use Runway 13 for takeoff and embarked on a low-level indirect flight of some 42 minutes duration during which he experienced some sink and had difficulty maintaining a steady rate of climb.
The aircraft landed normally at Darley Moor on Runway 19, where the pilot waited for an hour before taking off again from the same runway, with an observed wind speed of 6-8 knots from the south-east. He had applied 12 degrees of flap and rotated the aircraft at 20 knots, lifting off at around 30 knots. He stayed in ground effect until the airspeed indicator (ASI) showed 40 knots and increased to 42 knots (the best climb speed).
The aircraft seemed to be climbing slowly but steadily and the pilot retracted the flaps at a height of 80 feet, whereupon it stopped climbing and the right wing dropped slightly. He recovered to wings level but the aircraft stalled, dropping the right wing and entering a nose-down spin to the right before impacting the ground. The aircraft was badly damaged but the pilot suffered only a minor injury".
Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report, confirmed as "Damaged beyond economic repair". As a result, the registration G-OLAS was cancelled by the CAA on 24/11/2015 as "destroyed".
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/56694926e5274a105e000004/Vierwerk_Aerolite_120_G-OLAS_12-15.pdf
2. CAA: http://www.caa.co.uk/aircraft-registration/
3. http://aerolite120.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/201511-LAAmag-AEROLiTE120.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Dec-2015 00:53 | Dr.John Smith | Added |
| 11-Dec-2015 01:04 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 11-Dec-2015 01:05 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Departure airport] |
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