Thursday, April 30, 2015

Lincolnshire pilot Stephen Spavin's death in air crash was accidental, coroner records: Denney Kitfox II, G-TOMZ and Cessna F177RG, G-AZTW



Surfleet pilot Stephen Spavin's death in a light aircraft crash was an accident, a coroner has recorded.

Mr. Spavin's single-seater Denny Kitfox plane collided with another aircraft mid-air and crashed near the Black Cat Roundabout on the A1 in Bedfordshire in September.

His plane suffered a damaged wing on the way to Sandy, where Mr. Spavin, an undertaker, would commute to from Lincolnshire.

Emergency services rushed to the crash, which happened at around 8:30 am, but Mr. Spavin was pronounced dead at the scene.

The other aircraft, a Cessna piloted by Graham Waller, landed safely at Thurleigh Airfield.

Mr. Waller told an inquest in Ampthill that he saw a flash of red seconds before the collision and then struggled to lift his plane from a nose dive.

The Air Accident Investigation Branch said that both planes had been flying at 2000 to 3000 feet in good visibility and both machines were in good mechanical condition.

Inspectors concluded that due aircraft blind spots it was likely the pilots hadn't seen each other in time to take evasive action.

Senior Coroner for Luton and Bedfordshire Tom Osborne said Mr. Spavins died of multiple injuries and concluded that his death was the result of an accident.

Original article can be found here: http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk

Collided while airborne, near St Neots, Bedfordshire,  September 23, 2014.

Summary:

Two aircraft collided in visual meteorological conditions in Class G airspace; neither aircraft was receiving an ATC service. The investigation concluded that the accident occurred because neither pilot saw the other aircraft in sufficient time to take effective avoiding action.

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