ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 145715
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| Date: | Friday 18 May 2012 |
| Time: | 18:23 LT |
| Type: |  Team Mini-Max 93 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | G-CBPL |
| MSN: | PFA 186-1310 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2002 |
| Engine model: | x Mosler CB 40 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Newnham Way, Ashwell, near Baldock, Hertfordshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Private Airstrip, Newnham, Hertfordshire |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (destroyed) when spun into the ground in a field at Newnham Way, Ashwell, near Baldock, Hertfordshire. According to the following extract from the AAIB report into the accident:
"The aircraft struck the ground in an erect spin and the pilot was seriously injured. The pilot had flown flexwing aircraft for several years but had very little experience flying three-axis aircraft.
The aircraft was based at a grass airstrip near Newnham, Hertfordshire, where its owner (who was also the pilot involved in the accident) had prepared it for flight testing for a permit to fly. A Permit Flight Release Certificate (PFRC) had been issued by the Light Aircraft Association (LAA) naming a pilot, with experience on the type, who was to undertake the testing.
The pilot named in the PFRC was not the owner. Nonetheless, the owner had conducted a number of taxi trials with the aircraft, including tail-up taxiing.
Very little is known of the circumstances leading to the accident except that the owner was flying the aircraft and received serious injuries when it crashed in a field, near the airstrip, having entered a spin from which it did not recover. Several eye witnesses may have seen the aircraft before the accident.
Two witnesses (witnesses saw an aircraft flying near the airstrip close to the time of the accident flying at a relatively low height, but straight and level, with the engine sounding “rough” or unusual. Witnesses 3 and 4 saw the aircraft’s final manoeuvre, describing an aircraft descending in an erect spin to the left.
The owner could not remember any details of the flight but he did confirm that it was his intention to fly the aircraft that day"
Damage sustained to the airframe: Per the AAIB report the aircraft was "destroyed". As a result the registration G-CBPL was cancelled by the CAA on 24/1/2013 as "Permanently withdrawn from use"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422fad5ed915d13710007e1/Team_Minimax_93_G-CBPL_04-13.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/
3. https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Plane-crash-near-Royston-18052012.htm
4. http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2012-05-19/pilot-suffers-life-threatening-injuries-in-crash/
5. http://www.heart.co.uk/cambridge/news/local/royston-plane-crash-man-critical/
6. http://web.archive.org/web/20160809171743/http://forums.bmaa.org:80/default.aspx?f=15
7. http://www.eastamb.nhs.uk/Default.aspx.LocID-00qnew0tj.RefLocID-00q00300a.Lang-EN.htm
8. http://www.royston-crow.co.uk/news/pilot-hospitalised-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-ashwell-plane-crash-1-1382758
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-May-2012 01:45 | gerard57 | Added |
| 19-May-2012 13:21 | sharla | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration] |
| 19-May-2012 21:37 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Source] |
| 09-Sep-2012 11:12 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Apr-2013 19:25 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-May-2015 03:01 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Source] |
| 14-Sep-2015 02:48 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 14-Sep-2015 02:48 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 14-Sep-2015 02:49 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 14-Sep-2015 02:54 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
| 28-Dec-2016 15:17 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
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