Denney K Tfox Mk 2, G-BWHV No & Type of Engines: Rotax
AAIB Bulletin: 3/2007 G-BWHV EW/G2006/07/28 ACCIDENT Aircraft Type and Registration: Denney Ktfox Mk 2, G-BWHV No & Type of Engines: Rotax VL 582 pston engne Year of Manufacture: 997 Date & Time (UTC): 8 July 2006 at 22 hrs Location: Treforest Industral Estate, Pontyprdd Type of Flight: Prvate Persons on Board: Crew - Passengers - Injuries: Crew - Passengers - Nature of Damage: Arcraft destroyed Commander’s Licence: Natonal Prvate Plot’s Lcence Commander’s Age: 53 years Commander’s Flying Experience: 24 hours (of whch 110 were on type) Last 90 days - 3 hours Last 28 days - 3 hours Information Source: Arcraft Accdent Report Form submtted by the plot Synopsis The arcraft suffered a substantal loss of engne power Turnng back for the return nto Cardff, the plot and crashed nto an ndustral estate followng an retuned the rado for the Cardff ATIS and was makng attempted forced landing into school playing fields. a turn to the left when he and hs passenger heard loud screechng sounds, and bangs, from the engne. The History of the flight plot throttled back and checked the engne nstruments, The plot and passenger, hs wfe, had planned a whch were normal. He found that the engne would local flight and took off from Cardiff Airport at about run at about 4,000 rpm - he commented that, normally 1145 hrs (UTC), departng to the north. Crossng 5,000 to 5,500 rpm was needed to mantan heght, wth the M4 motorway, clear of controlled arspace, they dle at about 3,000 rpm, so the arcraft was descendng descended to ,000 feet for a tmed clmb to 2,000 feet, at ths pont.
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