ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 148617
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| Date: | Tuesday 4 September 2012 |
| Time: | 13:30 LT |
| Type: |  Schempp-Hirth Nimbus 3 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | G-EENN |
| MSN: | 9 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Portmoak Airport, Scotlandwell, Kinross -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Portmoak Airport, Scotlandwell, Kinross |
| Portmoak Airport, Scotlandwell, Kinross | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A GLIDER pilot in his forties was killed yesterday when his aircraft crashed as it took off from the airfield at Scotland’s largest gliding club. The man was pronounced dead at the scene after the emergency services were called to Portmoak airfield on the shores of Loch Leven near Kinross, the home of the Scottish Gliding Centre.
The single seat glider, a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-3 aircraft, was only a matter of feet off the ground when the plane crashed early yesterday afternoon as it was being winched into the air, The pilot was found inside the cockpit of the overturned carbon fibre fuselage.
A spokesman for Tayside Police said the emergency services had been called to Portmoak Airport, Scotlandwell, Kinross, shortly after 1:30pm following reports of a serious crash involving a glider at the centre.
He said: “One person – a man in his late forties – was found within the upside-down Nimbus 3 aircraft and despite the efforts of paramedics, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
“It is understood the aircraft was in the process of taking off and had only been a matter of feet off the ground when the incident happened. No-one else was injured.”
The spokesman continued: “An investigation, involving Tayside Police, the Air Accident Investigation Bureau and the Civil Aviation Authority, is being carried out to establish the full set of circumstances surrounding the incident. As with all sudden deaths, a report will be submitted to the procurator-fiscal."
The glider was ex BGA 2820. Registration G-EENN cancelled by the CAA on 03/04/2013 as aircraft "destroyed" and registered owner "deceased"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422fd21e5274a1317000923/Schempp-Hirth_Nimbus-3_glider_G-EENN_06-13.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/
2. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/glider-pilot-killed-in-freak-accident-during-take-off.18781249
3. http://francoise.fischer.free.fr/n3/bga2820.jpg
4. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/nimbus3.htm
5. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1188997
6. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-19504457
7. http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/glider-pilot-dies-in-crash-on-takeoff-at-scottish-club-airfield-1-2505842
8. Tayside Police http://www.facebook.com/TaysidePolice/posts/435491743169896
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-Sep-2012 03:35 | timpman | Added |
| 05-Sep-2012 03:37 | harro | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 05-Sep-2012 03:40 | harro | Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Sep-2012 19:23 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Sep-2012 19:27 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-Sep-2012 10:48 | Alpine Flight | Updated [Time, Cn, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 11-May-2013 10:55 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 29-Jul-2013 15:21 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 09-Jan-2017 17:06 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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