ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 191571
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| Date: | Friday 24 September 2010 |
| Time: | 13:15 |
| Type: |  Rotorsport UK MT-03 |
| Owner/operator: | Norman Creveul |
| Registration: | G-CEYX |
| MSN: | RSUK/MT-03/038 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2008 |
| Engine model: | Rotax 912ULS |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Kirkbride Airfield, Kirkbride, Cumbria -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Kirkbride Airfield, Kirkbride, Cumbria |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 24-09-2010 when crashed at Kirkbride Airfield, Kirkbride, Cumbria: Whilst taking off the student pilot did not use the technique he had been taught, resulting in a loss of control and the gyroplane rolling on to its side. The pilot received minor injuries. According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"The student pilot was departing on a solo cross-country flight in fine weather. He lined up on Runway 10 and, in accordance with the normal takeoff procedure, selected full forward cyclic before he engaged the pre-rotator.
The student pilot reported that, during a normal takeoff, once the rotor has reached 220 rpm, the pre-rotator should be disengaged, the brakes released, the cyclic moved fully aft and the throttle advanced. Having carried out these actions, as the gyroplane increases speed down the runway, the relative airflow will accelerate the rotor and at about 340 rpm the gyroplane will become airborne.
On this occasion, the pilot did not select aft cyclic before he began the takeoff roll. He realised that the takeoff was not proceeding normally at the same time as hearing his instructor, who was watching from beside the control tower, say “stick back” over the radio. The pilot pulled back on the cyclic, the gyroplane became airborne, pitched nose up and rolled left.
The rotor blades struck the ground and the gyroplane came to rest on its left side. There was no fire and the student, who was wearing a full harness and a helmet, received only minor injuries"
Nature of Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report "Damage to rotors, left main landing gear, fuselage pod,
propeller and rudder". The damage sustained was presumably enough to render the airframe as "beyond economic repair", as the registration was cancelled by the CAA, although belatedly, on 12-11-2014 (over four years later)
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422f67bed915d1371000605/Rotorsport_UK_MT-03__G-CEYX_12-10.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=CEYX
3. http://modernautogyros.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/mt-03-rotorsport-uk-production.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 23-Nov-2016 18:59 | Dr.John Smith | Added |
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