ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 21771
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| Date: | Saturday 6 October 2007 |
| Time: | 16:20 |
| Type: |  Cessna 152 |
| Owner/operator: | PJC (Leasing) Ltd |
| Registration: | G-OPJC |
| MSN: | 152-82280 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-235-L2C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | St Mary’s Marsh, 4 mile NE of Gravesend, Kent -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Stapleford Tawney, Essex (EGSX) |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Damaged in a forced landing on 6 October 2007 at St Mary’s Marsh, 4 miles NE of Gravesend, Kent. According to the summary of the official AAIB report into the accident:
"The aircraft was flying normally at 2,000 feet with an instructor and a student pilot on board, and had been airborne for fifteen minutes. Without warning the instructor felt a sharp stinging sensation on his right ankle, and also noticed a burning smell, and smoke then started to fill the cockpit. The instructor promptly declared a ‘MAYDAY’, switched both the fuel and the magnetos off, and selected a field for a forced landing.
He recalled that the smoke cleared during the descent, and he continued with the forced landing into a field that he felt was suitable, on St Mary’s Marsh, 4 miles north-east of Gravesend, Kent. Having successfully touched down, during the ground roll the aircraft went into a drainage ditch at the end of the field. This resulted in damage to the nose gear leg and the forward fuselage. From the air the field had appeared suitable and the instructor had thought that the ditch, which had been visible, was a path.
The instructor and student exited normally and were uninjured. The Coast Guard attended the scene as a result of the ‘MAYDAY’ call."
It is presumed that G-OPJC was not repaired, and was withdrawn from use after this incident, as the registration was cancelled by the CAA on 25 April 2008 as "Permanently withdrawn from use"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/5422fdee40f0b61342000879/Cessna_152__G-OPJC_03-08.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=OPJC
3. http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000138370.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Jul-2008 10:39 | Fusko | Added |
| 03-Mar-2015 19:15 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Jan-2016 23:41 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Jan-2016 23:58 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 05-Jan-2016 00:32 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Time, Source] |
| 14-Sep-2016 13:43 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Source] |
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