Incident Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche G-ATMT,
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Date:Sunday 14 August 2011
Time:13:15 .
Type:Silhouette image of generic PA30 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche
Owner/operator:Montagu-Smith and Company Ltd
Registration: G-ATMT
MSN: 30-439
Year of manufacture:1964
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Location:Maypole Airfield (EGHB), Hoath, Canterbury, Kent, -   United Kingdom
Phase: Landing
Nature:Private
Departure airport:Alderney Airport (EGJA), St Anne, Alderney Island,Channel Islands, UK
Destination airport:Maypole Airfield (EGHB), Hoath, Canterbury, Kent, UK
Confidence Rating: Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities
Narrative:
Following a low airspeed approach to the airstrip, which was of marginal length for this type aircraft, a hard landing was made on the grass runway, causing skin rippling and bending the two wing spars.

Sources:

https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports - AAIB Bulletin No: 10/2012 Ref: EW/G2011/08/25

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
15 January 2017 G-ATMT Montagu-Smith & Company Ltd 1 Aston Rowant Nature Reserve, Chiltern Hills, Oxfordshire w/o

Images:


Netherthope Airfield, Nottinghamshire, UK - 17th September 2008

Revision history:

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30-Jun-2020 12:54 Peter Clarke Added

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