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Date: | Wednesday 16 November 2016 |
Time: | 18:15 |
Type: | Piper PA-32R-301T Saratoga II TC, |
Owner/operator: | Southern Aircraft Consultancy Inc Trustee |
Registration: | N551TT |
MSN: | 32-57026 |
Year of manufacture: | 1997 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Minor |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Blackbushe Airport, Yateley, Hampshire -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Blackbushe Airport (BBS/EGLK) |
Destination airport: | Blackbushe Airport (BBS/EGLK) |
Investigating agency: | AAIB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:AAIB investigation to Piper PA-32R-301T, N551TT: Landing gear retraction during touch-and-go, Blackbushe Airport, Surrey, 16 November 2016. The incident was the subject of an AAIB Investigation, and the following is the summary from the AAIB Report:
"A training flight, with an instructor, was being undertaken from Blackbushe Airport as part of a night rating qualification. It was dark and raining but the visibility was good and the surface wind was calm.
After a short local navigation exercise, the pilot re-joined the circuit and flew an approach to Runway 25. The runway has a tarmac surface, with a PAPI set at 3.1° for a displaced threshold and a landing distance available (LDA) of 1,059 m.
The pilot carried out a normal touchdown and, while rolling along the runway for a touch-and-go, asked the instructor to raise the flaps. The instructor was surprised by the request but carried out the action. As he did so, the pilot raised the landing gear and the gear unsafe warning sounded. The pilot, sensing the aircraft pitching up, lowered the nose and the propeller struck the ground. The instructor took control, lifted the aircraft into the air, re-selected the landing gear down and, having allowed time for it to lock down, landed on the remaining runway. The engine was shut down immediately and ATC was advised.
The instructor commented that he had not wanted to risk going around with a damaged propeller.
=Damage to airframe=
Per the above AAIB Report "Propeller damaged, engine shock-loaded". The aircraft was repaired and returned to service
Blackbushe Airport (IATA: BBS, ICAO: EGLK) is an operational general aviation airport in the civil parish of Yateley in the north-east corner of the English county of Hampshire. Built during the Second World War, Blackbushe is north of the A30 road between Camberley and Hook, close to the Hampshire.Surrey border, which explains why the AAIB Report states that the airfield is in "Surrey" [sic]
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | AAIB |
Report number: | |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
1. AAIB Final Report:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/58c921b440f0b67ec80001b1/Piper_PA-32R-301T_N551TT_03-17.pdf 2. FAA:
https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=551TT 3. Piper PA-32R N551TT at Swansea (EGFH) 2-6-2021:
https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/001637158.html 4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbushe_Airport#Present_day
History of this aircraft
This Piper PA-32R-301T Saratoga II TC was built in 1997, and was first registered in the USA as N551TT in that year. It has retained a US registration ever since (although the nominated owners have an address in Norfolk, UK). The same aircraft was involved in a landing accident at Compton Abbas Airfield, three miles south of Shaftesbury, Dorset on 16 July 2021 (see separate entry).
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
16 July 2021 |
N551TT |
Southern Aircraft Consultancy Inc Trustee |
0 |
Compton Abbas, 3 miles South of Shaftesbury, Dorset |
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sub |
Location
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Apr-2024 06:09 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
10-Apr-2024 06:10 |
ASN |
Updated [Embed code, Accident report] |