ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 189456
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| Date: | Saturday 29 April 2006 |
| Time: | 17:30 |
| Type: |  AutoGyro Europe MT 03 |
| Owner/operator: | Rotorsport UK Ltd |
| Registration: | G-RSUK |
| MSN: | RSUK/MT-03/001 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2005 |
| Engine model: | Rotax 914T |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Coventry Airport, Baginton, Coventry, Warwickshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Popham, Hampshire (EGHP) |
| Coventry Airport (CVT/EGBE) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The gyro-copter was returning from Popham Airfield to Coventry following an uneventful endurance flight. The pilot reported that the gyro-copter touched down, main wheels first, with the engine power at idle. He held the nose wheel off the runway, however, as the nose wheel touched down the gyro-copter turned left. The rotors struck the runway, one blade broke off and the gyro-copter rolled onto its right hand side. The pilot was uninjured.
The pilot attributed the cause of the accident to a combination of his failure to keep the nose-wheel off the ground until the forward speed was low enough that the offset nose wheel could be straightened before an immediate turn commenced, and the high ground speed which prevented the turn being completed without the gyro-copter rolling over. He considered that the calm wind conditions, high aircraft centre of gravity and fixed nose wheel to rudder pedal relationship made control of the landing overly sensitive.
A design modification to introduce a self-centering, fully castoring nose wheel has been incorporated in the aircraft configuration type approval and has successfully completed a ground and flight test program by both the CAA and RotorSport UK Ltd.
Nature of Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report "Rotor blades and propeller destroyed, damage to tricycle unit". The damage sustained was presumably "beyond economic repair", as the registration G-RSUK was cancelled by the CAA on 02-06-2007 as "Permanently withdrawn from use"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB; https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/54230485e5274a1314000c07/AutoGyro_Europe_MT-03__G-RSUK.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=RSUK
3. http://www.griffin-helicopters.co.uk/accidentdetails.aspx?accidentkey=3316
4. http://modernautogyros.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/mt-03-production.html
5. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.pixstel.com/mt-03-autogyro-g-rsuk_urlb4830.php]
6. https://www.flickr.com/photos/g-dash/9660936905/in/photolist-fHGPXF
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 23-Aug-2016 01:48 | Dr.John Smith | Added |
| 23-Aug-2016 01:49 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 23-Aug-2016 01:50 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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