ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 18655
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| Date: | Sunday 11 March 1979 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Cessna F182P Skylane (Reims) |
| Owner/operator: | Sir George Philip Grant-Suttie |
| Registration: | G-BEOG |
| MSN: | 0021 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | between Aldrington Basin and the A259 road at Portslade, West Sussex -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Edinburgh Airport, Turnhouse, Lothian |
| Shoreham Airport, Shoreham, West Sussex (EGKA) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
On 11 March 1979 Cessna 182 G-BEOG crashed into an embankment between Aldrington Basin and the A259 road at Portslade. The aircraft first struck the chimney of the Brighton B power station, its pilot having descended out of fog to get a visual fix to aid him to locate Shoreham Airport, before hitting the embankment, near to an oil storage depot, and exploding.
Tim Webb and Dennis Bird's history of Shoreham Airport says that the Cessna broadcast a distress call, whilst near the power station, and subsequently managed to avoid kerosene tanks before crashing onto a grass embankment. The two on board the Cessna were killed on impact. Webb & Bird give their identities as Gilbert David Shaw, an Edinburgh Police Constable, aged 47 and Thomas Arnott Moffat, aged 51, a former RAF Flight Lieutenant, who had flown from Edinburgh Turnhouse Airport.
G-BEOG was owned by Sir George Philip Grant-Suttie t/a Blairgowrie Aviation. The registration G-BEOG was cancelled (and the airframe de-registered) by the CAA on 24 March 1979
Sources:
1. Brighton Evening Argus Monday March 12th, 1979
2. Air Britain: British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919 to 1999 (published 1999)
3. CAA: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-BEOG.pdf
4. G-BEOG at Denham (EGLD) 20-6-1977: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1118782/
5. https://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=17562.0
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 24-Sep-2009 21:29 | andrewaircraft | Updated |
| 13-Oct-2009 10:08 | andrewaircraft | Updated |
| 13-Oct-2009 21:33 | andrewaircraft | Updated |
| 25-Sep-2011 02:35 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source] |
| 11-Nov-2012 14:51 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 15-Nov-2020 18:40 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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