ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 166930
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| Date: | Thursday 30 June 1983 |
| Time: | 14:00 LT |
| Type: | Kolb Flyer Mk 1 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | G-MJMY |
| MSN: | 268 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Doone Brae Farm, Cookshall, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Cookshall, Buckinghamshire |
| Cookshall, Buckinghamshire | |
| Investigating agency: | AIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Written off 30.6.83: crashed on test flight (on the aircrafts second-ever flight) at Doone Brae Farm, Cookshall, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
The aircraft was a home-built design, the first of its kind in the UK. It was registered as G-MJMY on 4.10.82. On the day of the accident, the pilot/owner/builder had originally only intended to undertake a "fast taxi" run, but the aircraft was taxied too fast down a sloping runway; so much so that it achieved take off speed, making its first ever flight unplanned.
After landing a short distance away, the pilot flew G-MJMY back to its base, is second-ever flight, but on approach, the aircraft rolled to port, due to a power loss on the port engine, and side-slipped into the ground. The aircraft then contacted the ground port wing first and cart wheeled, being severely damaged.
Presumably never repaired, as G-MJMY was formally de-registered by the CAA just over a year later, on 23.8.84 as "PWFU" ("Permanently Withdrawn From Use")
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/5422ea7340f0b61342000001/Kolb_Flyer_Mk_1_G-MJMY_10-83.pdf
2. CAA: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-MJMY.pdf
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolb_Flyer
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 13-Jun-2014 21:06 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 30-Oct-2015 03:16 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Operator, Source] |
| 10-Aug-2022 20:06 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Category] |
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