ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 75539
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| Date: | Thursday 9 July 2009 |
| Time: | 15:52 |
| Type: |  Schempp-Hirth Discus B |
| Owner/operator: | Cambridge Gliding Club Ltd |
| Registration: | G-CHOM |
| MSN: | 44 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1985 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | West of Gransden Lodge Airfield, Little Gransden, Cambridgeshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Gransden Lodge Airfield, Cambridgeshire |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Approximately ten minutes into a flight following a winch launch, the glider was observed to be in a spin to the left. The indications were that it entered the spin while soaring and did not recover before it struck the ground. The pilot sustained fatal injuries. According to contemporary press reports, the pilot may have been incapacitated due to a heart attack at the control whilst in flight:
"the AAIB report quotes a pathologist who says: “Although no significant cardiac pathology was evident at the autopsy, the possibility that the pilot may have suffered an incapacitating abnormal heart rhythm cannot be entirely discounted, as this can occur without leaving any pathological evidence.
“However to invoke this as a likely cause of the accident would require other strands of the investigation to suggest that medical incapacitation of the pilot was probable.”
Nature of Damage sustained to airframe: Per the AAIB report "Aircraft destroyed". As a result, the registration G-CHOM was cancelled by the CAA on 05-01-2010 as "Destroyed"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422f482ed915d1371000511/Schempp-Hirth_Flugzeugbau_GMBH_Discus_B__G-CHOM_07-10.pdf
2. CAA: https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?catid=1&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=reg&fullregmark=CHOM
3. http://www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/news/glider-death-crash-pilot-may-have-suffered-heart-attack-1-538909
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Jul-2010 11:22 | harro | Added |
| 15-Sep-2012 14:52 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Embed code] |
| 15-Oct-2012 15:19 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Embed code] |
| 14-Dec-2014 20:32 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 07-Nov-2016 23:40 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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