ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 65723
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Date: | Sunday 14 June 2009 |
Time: | 14:00 |
Type: | Schempp-Hirth Standard Cirrus |
Owner/operator: | Private |
Registration: | G-CKHT |
MSN: | 259G |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Sutton Courtenay, near Drayton, Oxfordshire -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Aston Down, Gloucestershire |
Destination airport: | |
Investigating agency: | AAIB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Ex D-1139, then BGA 5111; to G-CKHT 31.08.2006. The glider collided in mid air with RAF Tutor aircraft G-BYXR on 14.06.2009. The occupants of the Tutor were fatally injured, the glider crashed inverted into a field at Sutton Countenay, near Drayton, Oxfordshire.
The pilot of the glider - named in a BBC report as Albert Freeborn, aged 29, from Porchester, Hampshire, parachuted to safety
Registration G-CKHT cancelled by the CAA on 22.03.2010
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.
https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/summary-aar-5-2010-grob-g115e-tutor-g-byxr-and-standard-cirrus-glider-g-ckht-14-june-2009 2.
http://www.caa.co.uk/aircraft-registration/ 3.
https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/glider-pilot-parachutes-to-safety-following-double-death-crash-1-1233818 4.
http://www.aviationbanter.com/showthread.php?t=96945 5.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/8099551.stm 6.
http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/stdcir.htm 7.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-17017612 8.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100575/Glider-pilot-Albert-Freeborn-parachuted-earth-fatal-mid-air-collision-RAF-aircraft.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
15-Jun-2009 03:04 |
slowkid |
Added |
15-Jun-2009 03:58 |
RobertMB |
Updated |
15-Jun-2009 05:09 |
JINX |
Updated |
15-Jun-2009 06:02 |
RobertMB |
Updated |
15-Jun-2009 06:03 |
RobertMB |
Updated |
15-Jun-2009 06:25 |
Taildragger |
Updated |
15-Jun-2009 06:31 |
RobertMB |
Updated |
15-Jun-2009 21:06 |
looper |
Updated |
29-Nov-2009 09:09 |
Alpine Flight |
Updated |
15-Oct-2012 12:45 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
13-Dec-2014 00:39 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
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