ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 65037
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| Date: | Friday 16 November 2001 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Type: |  Westland Gazelle AH1 |
| Owner/operator: | British Army Air Corps (AAC) |
| Registration: | ZA777 |
| MSN: | 1819 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Batcombe, Somerset -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Taunton School, Taunton, Somserset |
| AAC Middle Wallop, Hampshire | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Crashed 16-11-2001 into a field at Batcombe, near Bruton, Somerset, killing the pilot Capt. Simon Hill. The helicopter had suffered a tie bar failure twenty five minutes after take off from a school in Taunton and was returning to Middle Wallop. The tie bar connects the rotor blade to the rotor head and failure results in loss of the main rotor blade. It was considered that this was a one off occurrence in the Gazelle rather than a manufacturing fault as in the crash of Lynx AH7 XZ650 on 22nd September 1994. **Location: At Snakelake Hill, near Bruton.
Sources:
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1661818.stm
2. https://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/19120-gazelle-crash.html
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2834605.stm
4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2688963.stm
5. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-2001.htm
**AFM January 2002, p74
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Sep-2011 06:48 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 23-Mar-2013 18:15 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Mar-2013 10:28 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 19-Jul-2016 14:09 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Jul-2016 18:06 | TB | Updated [Time, Operator, Location] |
| 29-Oct-2019 14:34 | TB | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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