ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 156301
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| Date: | Wednesday 5 June 2013 |
| Time: | 13:40 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk |
| Owner/operator: | Hinton Pilot Flight Training |
| Registration: | G-BGBN |
| MSN: | 38-78A0511 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1978 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-235-L2C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Cranfield Airport (EGTC), Cranfield, Bedfordshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Cranfield Airport (EGTC) |
| Cranfield Airport (EGTC) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On 5/6/2013, Piper Tomahawk G-BGBN crashed on take-off at Cranfield Airfield, Bedfordshire UK. 2 occupants injured, neither injuries are life threatening, aircraft made low slow turn at 300 ft and spun in. According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"G-BGBN took off from Runway 03 at the aerodrome at 12:32 hrs for a circuit training flight with the instructor sitting in the right seat and the student in the left. The weather reported by ATC at 12:20 hours was: wind from 040 degrees at 8 knots, 20 km visibility, broken cloud at 1,400 feet aal, a temperature of 13 degrees C, a dew point of 10 degrees C and a QNH of 1022 hPa.
The aircraft flew a right hand circuit and an approach to touch-and-go which seemed to observers to be uneventful. G-BGBN was seen to touch down near the touchdown zone markers, power was applied and it lifted off near the intersection of the runway and taxiway C.
Approximately two seconds later, the instructor transmitted “golf bravo november, rough running engine, turning around for runway 21”. The aircraft was in a gentle right turn as it passed the intersection of the runway and taxiway B but it then reversed its turn abruptly to the left. As the aircraft passed the upwind end of the runway in the left turn, the nose began to drop.
The aircraft descended and crashed within the aerodrome boundary 100 metres north-west of the threshold of Runway 21".
Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report "Aircraft Destroyed". As a result the registration G-BGBN was cancelled by the CAA on 9/11/2013
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/5422f6cb40f0b613420005a7/Piper_PA-38-112_Tomahawk__G-BGBN_03-14.pdf
2. CAA: http://www.caa.co.uk/aircraft-registration/
3. http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/local/two-airlifted-to-hospital-after-light-aircraft-crash-in-cranfield-1-5161551
4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-22783492
5. http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/index.html
Media:
The AAIB is investigating an accident involving a light aircraft at Cranfield Aerodrome.
— AAIB (@aaibgovuk) June 5, 2013
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-Jun-2013 13:09 | Wingit | Added |
| 05-Jun-2013 19:11 | harro | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport] |
| 06-Jun-2013 09:26 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 06-Jun-2013 11:37 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Embed code] |
| 07-Jun-2013 10:48 | Anon. | Updated [Phase, Narrative] |
| 11-Jun-2013 16:06 | Geno | Updated [Phase, Nature, Source] |
| 23-Sep-2015 16:19 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 23-Sep-2015 16:20 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 23-Sep-2015 16:27 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Narrative] |
| 02-Oct-2015 23:18 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Embed code] |
| 12-Feb-2016 00:49 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Embed code] |
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