Date:	Tuesday 11 July 1989
Time:	12:35 LT
Type:	Schweizer 269C (300C)
Owner/operator:	The Helicopter Flt Oxford Air Training School
Registration:	G-BOCO
MSN:	S1284
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	NW of Kidlington Airfield, Kidlington, Oxfordshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Kidlington Aerodrome, Oxfordshire (OXF/EGTK)
Destination airport:
Investigating agency:	AAIB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Crashed NW of Kidlington Airfield. Aircraft pitched forward whilst hovering at very low altitude (approx 2 or 3 feet agl); the front skids hit the ground, and due to the momentum of the aircraft, it overturned. According to the following extract from the official AAB re;port into the accident:

"Aircraft hovering at approximately 2 feet when student pilot asked the instructor for help in trimming the cyclic control. However, before the instructor could reach the controls, the student released the cyclic control, causing the aircraft to pitch forward. The front skids hit the ground followed by the rotors, and aircraft eventually came to rest on its right side"

Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report aircraft "beyond economic repair". As a result, the registration G-BOCO was cancelled by CAA as aircraft "destroyed" on 06-11-1989

1. The History of Oxford Airport
Geoff Phillips
Bookmarque Publishing 1996
ISBN 1-870519-31-0
British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919-1999
Compiled by Michael Austen
Air Britain (Historians) Ltd 1999
ISBN 0 85130 281 5
2. AAIB: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/542301aaed915d1374000ac7/Schweizer_269C__G-BOCO_09-89.pdf
3. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=BOCO
4. http://www.griffin-helicopters.co.uk/accidentdetails.aspx?accidentkey=14588

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Jan-2010 10:45	John Baker	Added
08-Oct-2012 09:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
04-Feb-2016 11:39	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]
27-May-2021 20:15	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]