Date:	Sunday 5 February 1989
Time:	11:08
Type:	de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide
Owner/operator:	Proteus Petroleum Aviation
Registration:	G-AJHO
MSN:	6835
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	5 miles south of Kidlington, Oxfordshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Kidlington Aerodrome, Oxfordshire (OXF/EGTK)
Destination airport:	Shoreham (ESH/EGKA), West Sussex
Investigating agency:	AAIB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Shortly after take-off from Kidlington, Oxfordshire on 5/2/1989, G-AJHO had a fire in the starboard engine. Just after setting heading at 1,500 feet, the starboard engine failed, and during a turn back to the airport, the wing, outboard of the failed engine, was seen to be on fire.

Fortunately there was a suitable field below, five miles south of Kidlington, but towards the end of the landing run the wheels dug into a soft patch of ground and the aircraft overturned. The pilot managed to escape unhurt, but the aeroplane itself finished up completely burnt out.

Registration G-AJHO cancelled by the CAA as "destroyed" 31/3/1989. (Note: Between 20/5/1987 and 10/10/1988, G-AJHO was repainted in "period" markings and flown as "G-ADDD". This was never officially sanctioned by the CAA - the "real" G-ADDD was impressed into military service as AW116, and scrapped on 22/5/1941)

The History of Oxford Airport
Geoff Phillips
Bookmarque Publishing 1996
ISBN 1-870519-31-0
British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919-1999
Compiled by Michael Austen
Air Britain (Historians) Ltd 1999
ISBN 0 85130 281 5
1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AJHO-1.pdf
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AJHO-2.pdf
4. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1511474
5. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422ecf640f0b61346000149/De_Havilland_89A_Rapide__G-AJHO_04-89.pdf

DH.89A Dragon Rapide G-AJHO of the Army Parachute Association at RAF Netheravon in 1968

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Sep-2008 01:00	ASN archive	Added
23-Jan-2010 10:46	John Baker	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
04-Dec-2012 12:45	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Phase, Nature, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
04-Dec-2012 13:02	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
22-Feb-2019 23:27	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Embed code]
22-Feb-2019 23:31	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
25-Feb-2019 20:56	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]