ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 181244
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Date: | Thursday 9 August 1984 |
Time: | 10:30 |
Type: | Mainair Gemini Sprint |
Owner/operator: | Private |
Registration: | G-MMSF |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Field at the side of Kirkbride Aerodrome, Cumbria -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Kirkbride Airfield, Kirkbride, Cumbria |
Destination airport: | Kirkbride Airfield, Kirkbride, Cumbria |
Investigating agency: | AIB |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:Written off 9/8/1984 when crashed into a field at the side of Kirkbride Aerodrome. According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"The instructor was demonstrating a practice forced landing from the downwind position. He misjudged the approach, and the aircraft was destroyed on impact with a fence to the left of the runway. The student pilot was unhurt, but the instructor suffered a broken wrist, having been saved from more serious injury by the fibreglass cockpit moulding"
Damage sustained to airframe: As confirmed by the AAIB report, the aircraft was "destroyed".
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | AIB |
Report number: | |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
1. AAIB:
https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/5422f8f0ed915d1374000707/Gemini_Sprint_Microlight_G-MMSF_04-85.pdf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-Nov-2015 18:50 |
Dr.John Smith |
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