ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 69123
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| Date: | Saturday 12 May 2001 |
| Time: | 15:27 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-24-250 Comanche |
| Owner/operator: | The Com Group |
| Registration: | G-ARIE |
| MSN: | 24-1888 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1960 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-540-A1B5 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Osea Island, Maldon, Essex -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Stapleford Tawney, Essex (EGSX) |
| Stapleford Tawney, Essex (EGSX) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (destroyed) 12 May 2001 when spun into the ground from 2,000 feet at Osea Island, Maldon, Essex. While undergoing a re-validation check flight for a PPL the pilot and his instructor were both exposed to dangerous levels of Carbon Monoxide contamination from the engine exhaust gases owing to them escaping from a fatigue crack in an exhaust manifold stub pipe and entering the air conditioning system.
The probable cause of the accident was the asphyxiation of both pilots rendering them unconscious and the aircraft subsequently striking the ground, steeply nose down, whilst spinning to the right. Both pilots were killed, although the later autopsy and toxicology report could not establish if they were already dead due to carbon monoxide poisoning before the aircraft impacted into the ground
Registration G-ARIE cancelled by the CAA on 2 October 2001 as aircraft "destroyed"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB; https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5488421a40f0b602410002a7/Piper_507786.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=ARIE
3. NTSB Identification: MIA01WA141 at https://www.ntsb.gov/about/employment/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20010521X00976&ntsbno=MIA01WA141&akey=1_
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osea_Island
Media:
Piper PA-24-250 Commanche G-ARIE at Wycombe Air Park - Booker (EGTB) on 24 August 1976:
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Oct-2009 00:16 | andrewaircraft | Added |
| 17-Oct-2009 23:25 | andrewaircraft | Updated |
| 12-Feb-2015 18:30 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 16-Jul-2016 18:30 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Time, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source] |
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