ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 44901
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| Date: | Tuesday 30 March 2004 |
| Time: | 08:40 |
| Type: |  Cessna T310R |
| Owner/operator: | NL Aviation Inc Trustee |
| Registration: | N6834L |
| MSN: | 310R2137 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Engine model: | Teledyne Continental TSI0-520-BB |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Wycoller Country Park, near Laneshaw Bridge, Colne, Lancashire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Leeds/Bradford Airport (LBA/EGNM) |
| Knock, Ireland (NOC/EIKN) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (destroyed) 30-03-2004 when caught fire in flight and crashed at Wycoller Country Park, near Laneshaw Bridge, Colne, Lancashire. The pilot - the sole person on board - was killed. According to the following excerpt from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"Fire in the aircraft's nose baggage compartment, which started in the vicinity of the cabin heater, caused the smell of smoke in the cockpit. This prompted the pilot to request a return to Leeds Bradford Airport six and a half minutes after he had taken off for a flight to Connaught (Knock) in Ireland. The aircraft successfully negotiated a level turn to the left at 3,400 feet onto a south-easterly heading but then started a rapid descent and a steep turn or series of turns where radio and radar contact was lost. This may have been the result of controlled flight or uncontrolled manoeuvres
The aircraft was seen to be flying slowly and ‘not in trouble’ a matter of seconds before it struck the ground. The aircraft crashed in a field at an elevation of 950 feet above mean sea level (amsl) approximately 0.5 nm to the south south-east of the last radar return and within two minutes of loss of contact. Ground impact marks were consistent with an uncontrolled impact yet the positions of some of the controls suggested that the pilot may have been trying to make a forced landing, albeit with a tailwind, into a sloping field which may have appeared level from the air.
Post mortem examination of the pilot concluded that there was no evidence of cabin air contamination which could have had an incapacitating effect and that he died as the result of multiple injuries sustained at the time of impact".
Nature of Damage to airframe: Per the AAIB report "Aircraft destroyed". However, the US registration N6834L was only belatedly cancelled by the FAA on 30-06-2013, almost nine years later.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. NTSB Identification: NYC04WA098 at https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief2.aspx?_ev_id=20040402X00414&ntsbno=NYC04WA098&akey=1
2. FAA: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?omni=Home-N-Number&nNumberTxt=6834L
3. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422fc7be5274a13170008e1/Cessna_T310R__N6834L_8-05.pdf
4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/3582073.stm
5. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=23325
6. http://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5366
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Oct-2008 00:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 18-Dec-2012 14:24 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Dec-2012 14:27 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Damage] |
| 01-Aug-2016 23:12 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Aug-2016 23:13 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:24 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
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