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Date: | Sunday 3 October 1982 |
Time: | 15:10 LT |
Type: | Cessna 172B Skyhawk |
Owner/operator: | Norman Law (regd. owner) |
Registration: | G-ARID |
MSN: | 48209 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | 1½ miles SSE of Tilstock Airfield, Whitchurch, Shropshire, -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Parachuting |
Departure airport: | Tilstock Airfield, Whitchurch, Shropshire (EGCT) |
Destination airport: | Tilstock Airfield, Whitchurch, Shropshire (EGCT) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Cessna 172B Skyhawk G-ARID: Substantially damaged 3.10.1982 in a parachuting sortie 1½ miles SSE of Tilstock Airfield, Whitchurch, Shropshire. According to the following excerpt from the official accident report:
"Following a 3,000 ft. parachute-drop, the pilot descended to carry out a low level fly past at the local motor-cycle grass racing circuit but when over the western boundary the port wing of the aircraft struck and severed an 11,000 volt electricity power cable. The aircraft safely recovered back to the Parachute clubs Tilstock Airfield. Damage was caused to the port wing and to the electricity power cables
Aircraft repaired and returned to service: sold on and re-registered a further five times between 4.9.1984 and 12.3.2019 before the registration G-ARID was cancelled on 16.5.2019 as "sold to the United States" and registered as N974SF
Sources:
1. AAIB Final Report:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422f56fe5274a1317000599/Cessna_172_B_G-ARID_04-83.pdf 2. CAA:
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ARID-1.pdf 3. CAA:
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ARID-2.pdf 4. CAA:
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ARID-3.pdf 5.
https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=974SF Images:
Sleap Airfield (EGCV), Harmer Hill Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK. - 24th September 2015
Media:
G-ARID Cessna 172B at Wellesbourne Mountford, Warwickshire, 21/04/18:
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
01-Jun-2020 17:57 |
Peter Clarke |
Added |
07-Jun-2022 23:39 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, Category] |