Extract from Flight Safety Extra (UK)

[Phil Perry]

Four fatalities, including two instructors.   Very Sad.

 

WITH INSTRUCTORS ON BOARD TWO DIE IN A CFIT AND TWO MORE IN A LOC

 

The December 2018 AAIB monthly bulletin reports two GA fatal accidents.  GASCo offers its sincere sympathy to the families and friends of all who died.

 

The 52 year old pilot of a PA-28-161 Cherokee Warrior III had 5,700 hours and held a CPL and an IRR.  He was the Senior Instructor at his school's location and was also an examiner.  He had been tasked with flying the Cherokee to Gloucestershire Airport for maintenance and took along a 19 year old student pilot who was approaching the navigation phase of his training.  The aircraft struck the summit of Bredon Hill at an Altitude of nearly 940 ft.  Part of the Met Office's aftercast reads:

 

It was a cloudy area with Broken or Overcast skies, bases of the cloud between 800 - 1300 ft ... Any hills over 800 ft would see foggy conditions.

 

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[Phil Perry]

And another extract, mentioning an Australian Safety Publication.

 

PARTIAL ENGINE FAILURE

 

Geoff Weighell, CEO of the British Microlight Aircraft Association and a GASCo Board Member, Nigel Everett and Colin Wright take a joint look at this particularly dangerous condition.

 

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