I’m surprised that, so far, no mention has been made of the unfortunate incident suffered by the Dorset GC tug which suffered an engine failure yesterday and had to make a forced landing near Bovington Camp, Dorset. Fortunately the pilot was uninjured, as was the case with the occupants of the ASK-13 under tow at the time, but judging from the BBC TV South pictures, it may be a while before ‘TMH is up and about again.
By: David Burke - 5th January 2014 at 19:39
Somewhat shocked at that ! It didn’t seem a particularily badly damaged machine!
By: avion ancien - 5th January 2014 at 19:03
Another one bites the dust – sadly!
By: Fournier Boy - 5th January 2014 at 18:43
How is the Husky getting on?
Total loss write off, it got recovered to the club hangar and I believe its been stripped of useful parts and scrapped. We unfrotunately had a couple of other accident repairs arrive, and we’re ful beyond capacity on airframes!
A plan exists for something bigger though!
FB
By: David Burke - 5th January 2014 at 17:32
How is the Husky getting on?
By: Fournier Boy - 5th October 2013 at 23:09
The loss adjuster was on site Friday, normally though even if we get it in the workshop mid week it’s going to be a couple of weeks before it goes through the system. I think you are local anyway so I’m sure we can work something out bazv!
FB
By: bazv - 5th October 2013 at 10:48
If you get permission fairly soon FB and need any help…just give me a shout – I am on Hols for next 2 weeks đŸ˜€
By: Fournier Boy - 5th October 2013 at 10:45
Its all in hand, dont panic. Some spars have been sourced, just waiting for the final permissions to go and recover it to the workshop…
FB
By: André1967 - 4th October 2013 at 18:54
The Husky wing has aluminium spars -it has a few differences from a standard Auster wings. Looking at the right hand wing – the spar looks bent.
Didn’t know it was aluminium. That indeed makes things more difficult.
By: David Burke - 4th October 2013 at 12:55
The Husky wing has aluminium spars -it has a few differences from a standard Auster wings. Looking at the right hand wing – the spar looks bent.
By: André1967 - 4th October 2013 at 08:35
Glad to see everybody got out unhurt!
Looks like repairable to me. According to the pictures the engine seems to have stopped before impact as I don’t see any damage to the prop?
Depending on the state of the fuselage this seems to be repairable. There is a shortage of left hand Auster wings but repairing a right hand wing (tip) should be possible.
I am sure there a lot of work involved though. :apologetic:
Cheers, André
By: David Burke - 4th October 2013 at 02:07
Wing parts will be difficult.
By: Stan Smith - 4th October 2013 at 01:36
Auster (The Steel Aeroplane) looks eminently repairable. Good show all round, except for that Yank engine up front. Should have stuck with the good old Gipsy major.
By: low'n'slow - 3rd October 2013 at 17:31
Congratulations to both pilots. Copybook response to an emergency which didn’t leave them any thinking time.
By: bazv - 1st October 2013 at 10:25
Shame but at least Bill managed to pull off a good forced landing in a fairly inhospitable area (terrain wise) – glad he is ok (and also the glider crew) and hopefully the a/c will be rebuilt eventually.They certainly need an aerotow facility there – it is a fffairly small airfield.
By: Consul - 30th September 2013 at 22:28
Story and picture here: http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/10705788.Lucky_escape__Three_people_uninjured_after_two_aircraft_crash_land_near_Wareham/
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