ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 18670
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| Date: | Monday 22 September 1986 |
| Time: | 10:30 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna FA152 Aerobat II (Reims) |
| Owner/operator: | Redhill Flying Club |
| Registration: | G-BHMH |
| MSN: | FA152-0367 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Hale Farm, Hale Oak Road, Chiddingstone, Edenbridge, Kent -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Redhill Aerodrome, Redhill, Surrey (EGKR) |
| Redhill Aerodrome, Redhill, Surrey (EGKR) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Cessna FA152 Aerobat II (Reims) G-BHMH: Written off (Damaged beyond repair) 22/9/1986 when wing struck a tree while practising forced landings. However due to lack of engine response during the manoeuvre, the "practice" forced landing became a real one!
On 22 September 1986, on a flight out of Redhill Airfield, a Redhill Flying Club instructor had demonstrated to a student pilot a practice forced landing in Cessna 152 G-BHMH. Now it was the student's turn to emulate the instructor. But the Cessna was too high over Chiddingstone at the point of commencement of the exercise and so the instructor took control and demonstrated to the student how to lose height by making 'S' turns. This he did down to 500 feet.
However when he selected carburettor heat and opened the throttle, in order to climb away, the engine did not respond. As he approached the field selected for the forced landing, he noticed that it was obstructed by overhead cables. Thus he elected to fly over these and land in the field beyond. He managed the former but evidently did not have sufficient height to achieve the latter, with the result that the Cessna's wing struck a tree (presumably on the field boundary) whilst manoeuvring to land. This caused the Cessna swing through 180º and fall to the ground.
Aircraft came down at Hale Farm, Hale Oak Road, Chiddingstone, Edenbridge, Kent at 10:30 am on 22/9/1986. The instructor escaped the Cessna with no injuries whereas the student suffered minor injuries in the course of so doing.
Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report, confirmed as "substantial damage to wings, fuselage, engine, engine mountings, landing gear, cowlings, bulkhead - sufficient to render the aircraft beyond economic repair". As a result, the registration G-BHMH was belatedly cancelled by the CAA on 9/8/1989 (almost three years later) as "Permanently withdrawn from use"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. Air Britain: British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919 to 1999 (published 1999)
2. AAIB: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/54230317ed915d1374000b77/Reims_Cessna_FA152_G-BHMH_11-86.pdf
3. CAA: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-BHMH.pdf
4. http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=17608.0
5. https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/G-BHMH.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 07-Aug-2010 15:51 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 26-Sep-2011 11:03 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 18-Nov-2012 15:51 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Dec-2015 22:21 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Dec-2015 22:29 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Location] |
| 25-Jan-2020 17:05 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 10-Nov-2020 17:53 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative, Accident report] |
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