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Date: | Tuesday 11 July 1989 |
Time: | 12:35 LT |
Type: | Schweizer 269C (300C) |
Owner/operator: | The Helicopter Flt Oxford Air Training School |
Registration: | G-BOCO |
MSN: | S1284 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | NW of Kidlington Airfield, Kidlington, Oxfordshire -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Kidlington Aerodrome, Oxfordshire (OXF/EGTK) |
Destination airport: | |
Investigating agency: | AAIB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Crashed NW of Kidlington Airfield. Aircraft pitched forward whilst hovering at very low altitude (approx 2 or 3 feet agl); the front skids hit the ground, and due to the momentum of the aircraft, it overturned. According to the following extract from the official AAB re;port into the accident:
"Aircraft hovering at approximately 2 feet when student pilot asked the instructor for help in trimming the cyclic control. However, before the instructor could reach the controls, the student released the cyclic control, causing the aircraft to pitch forward. The front skids hit the ground followed by the rotors, and aircraft eventually came to rest on its right side"
Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report aircraft "beyond economic repair". As a result, the registration G-BOCO was cancelled by CAA as aircraft "destroyed" on 06-11-1989
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. The History of Oxford Airport
Geoff Phillips
Bookmarque Publishing 1996
ISBN 1-870519-31-0
British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919-1999
Compiled by Michael Austen
Air Britain (Historians) Ltd 1999
ISBN 0 85130 281 5
2. AAIB:
https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/542301aaed915d1374000ac7/Schweizer_269C__G-BOCO_09-89.pdf 3. CAA:
https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=BOCO 4.
http://www.griffin-helicopters.co.uk/accidentdetails.aspx?accidentkey=14588 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
23-Jan-2010 10:45 |
John Baker |
Added |
08-Oct-2012 09:13 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
04-Feb-2016 11:39 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
27-May-2021 20:15 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |