Date:	Wednesday 29 February 1984
Time:	15:27
Type:	Cessna F150M Commuter (Reims)
Owner/operator:	Albert Louis Strongman t/a Anglian Flight Training
Registration:	G-BFEL
MSN:	F150-1375
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Hardwick, near Norwich, Norfolk -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Norwich Airport (EGSH)
Destination airport:	Norwich Airport (EGSH)
Investigating agency:	AIB
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
Destroyed 29/2/1984 in mid-air collision with USAF Fairchild A-10A Thunderbolt II 80-0180 at Hardwick, 10 miles south of Norwich, Norfolk. The Cessna was on a cross-country navigation training exercise (routing Norwich-Diss-Southwold-Norwich), the A-10A was en route from RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk. The collision took place at between 1,000 and 1,200 feet. The last position reported by the pilot of G-BFEL was at 15:24 hours: "just south of Hethel, heading one-five-zero degrees".

Apparently, at the moment of collision, the pilot of G-BFEL was not looking outward, but down into the lower part of the cockpit, as he was adjusting the frequency of his radio. The pilot of the Cessna was killed when it broke up in flight (due to the impact damage) and plunged vertically into the ground; the two crew of the A-10A managed to make a safe emergency landing back at Woodbridge

Registration G-BFEL cancelled by the CAA 11/12/1991 as "Addressee Status: Gone Away"

1. Air Britain: British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919 to 1999 (published 1999)
2. AAIB: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/5422f6fce5274a13140005f3/Reims_Cessna_F150M_G-BFEL_and_Fairchild_A10_Thunderbolt_A10-A0180_05-84.pdf
3. CAA: http://www.caa.co.uk/aircraft-registration/
4. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://coptercrazy.brinkster.net/search/f150show.asp?start=1350&count=50]

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-May-2008 11:10	ASN archive	Added
28-Sep-2011 02:50	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative]
09-Nov-2012 11:48	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
03-Nov-2015 00:32	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
03-Nov-2015 00:36	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Operator]
03-Nov-2015 00:36	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Operator]