ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 179715
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| Date: | Sunday 11 November 2012 |
| Time: | 09:55 |
| Type: | Mainair Gemini Flash IIA |
| Owner/operator: | G-MTTW Trustee Group |
| Registration: | G-MTTW |
| MSN: | 622-188-5-W4 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1987 |
| Engine model: | Rotax 462 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Caernarfon Airport, Dinas Dinlle, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Caernarfon Airport (EGCK) |
| Caernarfon Airport (EGCK) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 11/11/2012 when flipped onto its right side on landing at Caernarfon Airport, Dinas Dinlle, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales (EGCK). According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"After a 30-minute checkout with his instructor, the student was despatched for a solo local flight. After being airborne for about 30 minutes, the student rejoined the circuit to land. The instructor, watching from the ground, saw the aircraft round out “perfectly” but, as the wheels touched down, the aircraft veered violently to the left and flipped onto its right side. The student was airlifted to hospital as a precaution but was released later that afternoon.
The student admitted that he forgot to check, as he had been instructed to do, that the nosewheel steering was straight whilst on the downwind leg and final approach. The instructor, who described his student as “very able and competent”, attributes the omission to a momentary lapse of concentration by the student".
Damage sustained to airframe: Damage to cockpit, wing, trike, keel and propeller. As this seems to have been enough to render the airframe as "damaged beyond economic repair", the registration G-MTTW was cancelled by the CAA on 29/7/2013, some eight months later
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/5422f475ed915d13740004df/Gemini_Flash_IIA__G-MTTW_5-2013.pdf
2. CAA: http://www.caa.co.uk/aircraft-registration/
3. http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/G-MTTW.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Sep-2015 15:27 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
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