Date:	Friday 11 November 2016
Time:	16:00
Type:	P & M Aviation Pegasus Quik GT450
Owner/operator:	Private
Registration:	G-CIDG
MSN:	8665
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Category:	Accident
Location:	Headcorn Aerodrome, Shenley Road, Headcorn, Ashford, Kent -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Maidstone-Lashenden (Headcorn) Airfield (EGKH)
Destination airport:	Maidstone-Lashenden (Headcorn) Airfield (EGKH)
Investigating agency:	AAIB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
AAIB investigation to Quik GTR, G-CIDG: Substantially damaged due to loss on control on landing caused by wake turbulence, Headcorn Aerodrome, Shenley Road, Headcorn, Ashford, Kent, 11 November 2016. The pilot sustained severe injuries. The incident was the subject of an AAIB Investigation, and the following is the summary from the AAIB Report

"The pilot was about to turn the microlight onto finals just as a Cessna 208 (single-engine turbine aircraft) descended ahead onto finals. The pilot made a turn away from the airfield to allow some separation then turned onto and called finals for a nil-wind landing. When the microlight was about 30 feet above the runway it rolled “violently” to the right in the wake of the twin that had just landed, and hit the ground in a nose-down attitude. There was severe structural damage to the microlight, including to the wings, fuselage and cockpit area. The pilot, who was wearing a helmet and lap harness, was assisted from the wreckage by airfield staff and taken to hospital by ambulance with a fractured vertebra."

=Damage to airframe=
Per the above AAIB Report "Extensive" damage was sustained

1. AAIB Final Report: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/58d39efde5274a16e80000aa/Quik_GTR_G-CIDG_02-17.pdf
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headcorn_Aerodrome

This P & M Aviation Pegasus Quik GT450 was built in 2014, and was first registered (as new) to the manufacturers as G-CDIG on 11 December 2023. It was sold on to its first owner on 9 December 2014, who was at the controls when it crashed on 11 November 2016. Despite being extensively damage, G-CDIG was sold on for a further two occasions on 25 November 2016 (just two weeks after the above incident) and again on 16 May 2017

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Apr-2024 14:15	Dr. John Smith	Added
10-Apr-2024 14:15	ASN	Updated [Accident report]