Date: | Tuesday 22 October 1963 |
Time: | 10:40 |
Type: | BAC One-Eleven 200AB |
Owner/operator: | British Aircraft Corporation - BAC |
Registration: | G-ASHG |
MSN: | 004 |
Year of manufacture: | 1963 |
Total airframe hrs: | 81 hours |
Cycles: | 78 flights |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 2 km NNW of Chicklade -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Test |
Departure airport: | Wisley Airfield |
Destination airport: | Wisley Airfield |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The One-Eleven prototype was engaged in a series of test fights to assess stability and handling characteristics during the approach to, and recovery from the stall with a centre of gravity in varying positions. On the fifth stalling test, at a height of about 16000 feet and with 8deg of flaps, the plane entered a stable stall. The 1-11 continued to descend at a high vertical speed, and in a substantially horizontal attitude and eventually struck the ground with very little forward speed.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "During a stalling test the aircraft entered a stable stalled conditions, recovery from which was impossible."
Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest No.15 - Volume II, Circular 78-AN/66 (55-67)
Location
Images:
photo (c) Robert Yuill; Bournemouth-Hurn Airport (BOH/EGHH); 20 August 1963
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