ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 18562
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| Date: | Sunday 26 April 1987 |
| Time: | 11:45 UTC |
| Type: |  Cessna 441 Conquest II |
| Owner/operator: | Moxy Dump Trucks (UK) Ltd, opb. Brown Air Services |
| Registration: | G-MOXY |
| MSN: | 441-0154 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Blackbushe Airport (BBS), Surrey -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Leeds-Bradford Airport (LBA/EGNM) |
| Blackbushe, Hampshire (BBS/EGLK) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Crashed when going around following a Runway 26 approach to Blackbushe. The pilot who was relatively new to the type was positioning the aircraft to Blackbushe to collect a company passenger for return to Leeds.
"After a flight from Leeds Bradford Airport, Cessna 441 G-MOXY was approaching to land at Blackbushe Airfield on the morning of 26 April 1987. The pilot, who was a very experienced ATPL (Airline Transport Pilot's Licence) holder, lowered the Cessna's undercarriage but an electronic defect meant the absence of the signal that told him that this was fully locked down. Thus at a height of about 100 feet he decided to go around. He must have opened up the throttles, with the intention of climbing away, but this appears to have resulted in asymmetric power from the Cessna's two engines. In consequence, rather than climbing away on an even keel, the Cessna started to bank and turn to port. Quickly the angle of bank reached 60º to the horizontal. It continued to increase, and the turn becoming tighter, but the Cessna didn't gain height. As it passed over the A30 road the angle of bank increased further still. The pilot radioed words to the effect: 'I'm sorry, I'm going in'. The Cessna continued to increase its angle of bank, reaching and going through the vertical until, at an angle of about 135º and semi-inverted, it crashed into trees about 550 metres beyond the runway threshold.
Cartwheeling, it cut a 40 metre swathe through those trees. The nose and cockpit area took the brunt of the impact. The tail section detached from the fuselage. The wings were badly damaged, rupturing the fuel tanks in each and spilling their contents on the ground. The cockpit partially detached from the fuselage and, when finally the Cessna came to a halt, what remained of that - to use the terminology of the AAIB report - was 'the remnants'. Fire did not break out but the Cessna was destroyed, its registration being cancelled as such by the CAA on 28 June 1989, and the pilot died as a result of multiple injuries sustained in the crash. The crash was deemed non-survivable.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1987/1987%20-%200509.html?search=G-MOXY
AAIB
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1409241/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 07-Aug-2008 11:18 | harro | Updated |
| 12-Jun-2009 06:20 | RMB | Updated |
| 12-Jun-2009 12:13 | RMB | Updated |
| 23-Dec-2012 09:23 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 30-Oct-2014 03:29 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 30-Oct-2014 03:30 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location] |
| 07-Dec-2015 00:44 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Dec-2015 00:44 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 07-Dec-2015 00:45 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 21-Nov-2020 21:17 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative, Accident report] |
| 21-Nov-2020 21:21 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 29-Jan-2022 10:21 | TB | Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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