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Date: | Sunday 10 August 1975 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Druine D.31 Turbulent |
Owner/operator: | Peter Channon |
Registration: | G-ATKR |
MSN: | PFA.1615 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Shoreham Airport, Shoreham, West Sussex -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Demo/Airshow/Display |
Departure airport: | Shoreham Airport, Shoreham, West Sussex (EGKA) |
Destination airport: | Shoreham Airport, Shoreham, West Sussex (EGKA) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Turbulent G-ATKR crashed, without fatal consequences to its pilot, during an air show at Shoreham Aerodrome on 10 August 1975. An eyewitness to the accident recounted it as follows:
"Although I was away from the crowd-line, I clearly remember a Turbulent mush in, during what appeared to be a tight right turn at low level. It possibly occurred during a line-up to land manoeuvre. Bits of Turbulent briefly fluttered about, and that was that, hardly a sound".
The CAA records G-ATKR as having been destroyed that day although this fact was not notified to it until 20 September 1984, over nine years later!
Sources:
1. CAA:
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ATKR.pdf 2. Wreckage of G-ATKR on the back of a truck Shoreham, August 1975:
https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000623318.html 3. G-ATKR at Biggin Hill (EGKB) 18/5/1973:
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1305167 4. G-ATKR at Redhill (EGKR) 29/6/1969:
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1277132 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
24-Nov-2020 18:09 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |