ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 69470
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| Date: | Tuesday 27 October 2009 |
| Time: | 12:45 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-28-140 Cherokee F |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | G-BEEU |
| MSN: | 28-7325247 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1973 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-320-e2A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Panshanger Airfield, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Panshanger Airfield, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire (EGLG) |
| Panshanger Airfield, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire (EGLG) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 27-10-2009 when hit a dog and a pedestrian on landing at Panshanger Airfield, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. According to the following excerpt from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"The student and instructor were conducting touch-and-go landings on Runway 29 at Panshanger. On the fifth landing the aircraft touched down at approximately the mid-point of the runway, whose grass surface was wet. The instructor stated that when he applied power to take off again the aircraft became airborne but the engine “hesitated”.
He aborted the takeoff and applied brakes but was unable to stop the aircraft before it crossed a ditch and impacted a fence at the aerodrome boundary. A man walking a dog along a footpath outside the airfield perimeter fence, stated that he was struck by the aircraft, which ran over and trapped the dog and caused him serious injury. The uninjured pilot and instructor vacated the aircraft without assistance.
The aircraft, though not substantially damaged, sustained several punctures from the fence posts and a bent propeller. Impact with the ditch and fence and collapse of the nose landing gear disrupted the engine air intake assembly to the extent that the maintenance organisation that inspected it after the accident was unable to determine what might have caused the engine to hesitate".
Nature of damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report "Nose gear damaged and wings pierced by a fence post". Aircraft later deemed to have been "damaged beyond economical repair", and registration G-BEEU was cancelled by the CAA on 18-09-2012 as "Permanently withdrawn from use"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5423040f40f0b61342000b4b/Piper_PA-28-140_Cherokee__G-BEEU_04-10.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/
3. Damaged airframe at Panshanger 17-07-2010: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jerseyaviationimages/4811170729
4. http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000430942.html
5. Damaged airframe still at Panshanger 01-06-2012: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1350007
6. https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/6101748
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Oct-2009 11:41 | RobertMB | Added |
| 16-Oct-2012 16:36 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative] |
| 16-Oct-2012 16:40 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Embed code] |
| 13-Nov-2016 21:25 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative] |
| 29-Sep-2017 22:45 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Embed code] |
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