ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 189318
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| Date: | Tuesday 23 August 2005 |
| Time: | 18:30 |
| Type: | Microflight Spectrum |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | G-MWKW |
| MSN: | 015 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1992 |
| Engine model: | Rotax 582-2V |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Sutton Meadows Airfield, Sutton Gault, Ely, Cambridgeshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Sutton Meadows Airfield, Sutton Gault, Ely, Cambridgeshire |
| Sutton Meadows Airfield, Sutton Gault, Ely, Cambridgeshire | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 23-08-2005 when ran off the runway on its take off run at Sutton Meadows Airfield, Sutton Gault, Ely, Cambridgeshire. No injuries were reported to the two persons on board (instructor and pilot under training). According to the following excerpt from the official AAIB report into the accident:
"The ‘Spectrum’ is a 3-axis microlight aircraft with conventional rudder, aileron and elevator controls. The instructor and student were involved in a session of circuits on Runway 24, which had a dry grass surface and was 480 metres long. The weather was good with a surface wind of 240 degrees/8 knots. The student had previously flown some 55 hours in flex-wing aircraft and, more recently some 40 hours in 3-axis aircraft.
His instructor considered that the student was very close to solo standard and the instructor had not been required to make any inputs during the flight, which had involved some six to seven circuits. However, on the final takeoff, the aircraft started to turn to the right and the student failed to correct this movement with the rudder. The instructor was unable to intervene before the aircraft left the runway, crossed a drainage ditch and came to rest in a beet field.
Colliding with the far side of the ditch damaged the aircraft beyond economic repair."
Nature of Damage to airframe: Per the AAIB report "Extensive" damage sustained. As noted by the AAIB report, the airframe was "beyond economic repair", and therefore the registration G-MWKW was cancelled by the CAA on 08-03-2006 as "destroyed"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/542302c640f0b61346000c39/G-MWKW_1-06.pdf
2. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=MWKW
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Aug-2016 21:24 | Dr.John Smith | Added |
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