ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 187611
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| Date: | Sunday 5 June 1994 |
| Time: | 14:50 |
| Type: |  Robinson R-22 Beta |
| Owner/operator: | Deltair Ltd |
| Registration: | G-UPCC |
| MSN: | 0806 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1988 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Liverpool Airport, Speke, Liverpool -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Liverpool (Speke) Airport (LPL/EGGP) |
| Liverpool (Speke) Airport (LPL/EGGP) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Ex-G-MUSS (first registered as such 12-5-1988). Re-registered as G-UPCC 29-6-1989. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 5-6-1994 when crashed at Liverpool Airport, Speke, Liverpool. No injuries sustained to the two persons on board. According to the following extract from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"Hard landing after practise engine failure. Tail boom struck ground. Substantial damage. No injuries.
At approximately 300 feet, the throttle was closed below the descent; flare commenced between 80-40 feet. Aircraft became slightly nose high. Collective applied to arrest descent rear of skids, but contacted ground whilst aircraft still travelling forwards. Aircraft pitched onto front of skids and again onto rear. Following thud and yaw to left, aircraft came to rest tail down and main rotor struck ground to the rear.
Skids were not splayed significantly but rear skid extensions had been torn off. Evidence of tail rotor ground strike, and witness observed high rate of descent and nose high touch down".
Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report: "Extensive damage to tail rotor, main rotor and transmission". The damage was presumably was enough to render the airframe as "beyond economic repair", as the registration G-UPCC was cancelled by the CAA on 29-10-1997, over three years later.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/5422ed46ed915d1371000163/Robinson_R22_Beta__G-UPCC_08-94.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=UPCC
3. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/r22_0501-1000_29.html
4. http://www.griffin-helicopters.co.uk/accidentdetails.aspx?accidentkey=14729
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-May-2016 18:15 | Dr.John Smith | Added |
| 24-May-2016 18:28 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
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