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Date: | Sunday 4 December 2016 |
Time: | 12:40 |
Type: | Cessna 150L |
Owner/operator: | Go Fly Oxford Aircraft Rentals |
Registration: | G-CSFC |
MSN: | 15075360 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | Laughton Road, Lubenham, 2 miles west of Market Harborough, Leics. -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Hinton-in-the-Hedges, near Brackley, Northamptonshire |
Destination airport: | Leicester Airport (EGBG) |
Investigating agency: | AAIB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:A Cessna 150L, G-CSFC, and a glider (SZD-51-1 Junior G-CLJK) suffered a mid-air collision over Lubenham, Leicestershire, U.K., on 4 December 2016. The glider crashed, killing the pilot. The Cessna landed safely with damage to the right-hand wing tip.
According to contemporary press reports:
"A GLIDER pilot has died after a suspected mid-air collision with a light aircraft.
The tragic crash happened at about 12.40 pm in a field between the villages of Lubenham and Mowsley, near Market Harborough, Leics. Emergency services rushed to the scene and the road was closed in the aftermath of the fatal crash. The pilot was a member of the Gliding Centre at Husbands Bosworth Airfield.
The club said in a statement: “On December 4 at approximately 12.40 pm, a glider crashed while on a local flight". They added: “The pilot, who is a club member, has been fatally injured. The incident is currently under investigation.”
The light aircraft went on to land safely after the crash, police said. A police spokesman said: “Emergency services were called out to an area off Laughton Road in Lubenham following reports of a glider having landed in the field. Officers from Leicestershire Police and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch are conducting an investigation to establish the exact circumstances surrounding the incident. From initial enquiries carried out at the scene, officers believe the glider had been in collision with a light aircraft prior to coming down in the fields. The man on board the glider has been pronounced dead at the scene.”
An eye witness who passed the scene on foot at about 1.30 pm said the glider had appeared to have smashed apart on impact, with debris scattered in a small area of the field. He said: “It’s a two-seater plane. I could see one fatality. The cockpit is badly impacted. It has landed, but there is not much left of the cockpit. There is a lot of damage to the front of the aircraft. I am not sure if it has hit something before it crashed, because there is wood across it (the glider). The stretch of road from Lubenham to the Mowsley crossroads was closed about 1.45 pm – a lot of people were driving along and stopping and looking, which was causing problems". The anonymous eyewitness added that "the glider crashed in a livestock field, which was full of sheep."
UPDATE: The official AAIB report into the accident was published 14.9.2017, and the following is the conclusion from that report:
"The accident occurred because the pilots did not see each other’s aircraft in sufficient time to take effective avoiding action. Collision avoidance was by lookout and visual detection, which has limitations, and the low sun would have reduced the likelihood of the pilot of G-CLJK seeing G-CSFC in time.
G-CLJK was fitted with FLARM but G-CSFC was not fitted with such a system. Therefore, there was no electronic means to increase the ability to detect other aircraft in the vicinity to allow for effective collision avoidance. The CAA have since issued CAP 1391 and are part of CWG which promotes the installation of EC devices in aircraft."
=Damage to airframe=
Per the above AAIB report G-CSFC sustained "major damage to right wing". the aircraft was repaired and returned to service
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | AAIB |
Report number: | EW/C2016/12/01 |
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Sources:
1. AAIB:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/59afe854e5274a180e3705d5/SZD-51-1_Junior_glider_G-CLJK_and_Cessna_150L_G-CSFC_09-17.pdf 2. CAA: G-CSFC history 1978-1985:
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-CSFC.pdf 3.
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/man-killed-in-glider-crash/story-29956463-detail/story.html 4.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2326107/pilot-dead-after-glider-crashes-into-field-in-lubenham-after-mid-air-collision-with-light-aircraft/ 5.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3999184/Man-killed-glider-smashed-light-aircraft-skies-Leicestershire.html 6.
https://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/news/glider-tragedy-update-investigators-believe-pilot-may-have-died-in-mid-air-collision-1-7711883 7.
http://www.itv.com/news/central/2016-12-04/man-dies-after-glider-collides-with-light-aircraft/ 8.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-38203019 9.
https://www.pprune.org/private-flying/587798-glider-cessna-midair-collision.html 10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubenham
History of this aircraft
G-CSFC was built in 1978, and first registered in the USA as N11370 on February 3 1978. It was first registered in the UK as G-CSFC on 21 March 1978. After passing through the hands of 15 owners between 1978 and 2019, it was re-registered as G-KWET on 18 March 2019
Location
Media:
G-CSFC: Cessna 150L at Hinton-in-the-Hedges, Northamptonshire 11 February 2019.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Dec-2016 20:49 |
Dr.John Smith |
Added |
04-Dec-2016 20:53 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Location, Embed code] |
05-Dec-2016 05:57 |
JINX |
Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn] |
05-Dec-2016 06:52 |
jan olieslagers |
Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source] |
05-Dec-2016 06:56 |
harro |
Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, Damage, Narrative, Plane category] |
05-Dec-2016 09:00 |
Anon. |
Updated [Source] |
06-Dec-2016 13:12 |
h2g2bloke |
Updated [Other fatalities] |
20-Dec-2016 13:04 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Total occupants, Location] |
14-Sep-2017 18:24 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
02-Apr-2024 06:46 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, Category] |
10-Apr-2024 14:18 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |