ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 19510
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Date: | Saturday 7 June 1975 |
Time: | |
Type: | AESL Airtourer 115/T2 |
Owner/operator: | Private |
Registration: | G-AWOZ |
MSN: | 507 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Chew Magna, Somerset -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Demo/Airshow/Display |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Crashed during air display at Chew Magna, Somerset, 7/6/1975 whilst flying at low level. Both persons on board (pilot and passenger) killed. According to eyewitness reports (see link #1) the aircraft was attempting to perform low-level aerobatics ("loop the loop") but did so at too low an altitude to complete the loop.
Registration G-AWOZ cancelled by the CAA 29/12/1975 as aircraft "destroyed"
Sources:
1. Wings Over Somerset: Aircraft Crashes Since the End of World War II by Peter Forrester
2.
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AWOZ.pdf 3.
http://www.dave.wise.btinternet.co.uk/DWAirtourer.htm 4.
http://www.airtourer.asn.au/jupgrade/lists-by-serial-no-or-rego/63-list-by-serial-number 5.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ENG-SOMERSET/2011-02/1298758202 6.
http://www.flydw.org.uk/DWAirtourer.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-May-2008 11:10 |
ASN archive |
Added |
25-Aug-2012 15:04 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
25-Aug-2012 15:15 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
24-Jun-2013 07:51 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
24-Jun-2013 07:58 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [[Source, Narrative]] |
26-Jul-2015 02:24 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
07-Feb-2022 20:19 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
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