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Date: | Tuesday 27 May 1980 |
Time: | 14:42 |
Type: | Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk |
Owner/operator: | Oxford Air Training School |
Registration: | G-BGGH |
MSN: | 38-79A0164 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Grimsdyke Farm, Marsh Gibbon, Oxfordshire -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Kidlington Aerodrome, Oxfordshire (OXF/EGTK) |
Destination airport: | |
Investigating agency: | AIB |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:Destroyed in a crash when failed to recover from a deliberate spin at 5,000 feet. Instructor was teaching the pupil pilot how to recover from a spin (which for training purposes had been deliberately induced) when the aircraft failed to respond for recovery to normal flight. According to some sources, the aircraft's Centre of Gravity may have shifted during the spin, making recovery impossible
G-BGGH spun into the ground at Grimsdyke Farm, Marsh Gibbon, Oxfordshire, killing both persons on board. Registration G-BGGH belatedly cancelled by the CAA as aircraft "destroyed" on 21/4/1983.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | AIB |
Report number: | |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
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
http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/11-1981%20G-BGGH.pdf http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-BGGH.pdf https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/477515-piper-tomahawk-spin-question.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
23-Jan-2010 10:50 |
John Baker |
Added |
16-Nov-2012 23:03 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |