'Peter was married with two children and was an airline captain with Flybe. 'Gliding out here over the Karoo in Africa is very different to gliding in the UK as our weather is very strong due to the heat and the thermals and you have to be very wary. Read our. Three prototypes were built. The horizontal visibility was around half a mile. Your email address will not be published. These have now been removed, as have most of the buildings dating from World War II. In their report, which was released on Thursday, investigators from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch of the Department of Transport say: "It appeared that neither pilot saw the other glider in time to initiate any effective avoidance manoeuvre.". He was devoted to his poodle cross, Dougle. The reason why the pilot decided to leave the traffic pattern of the aerodrome will probably never be known. Flybe airline captain Peter got into difficulties as he tried to climb and is believed to have stalled the glider and gone into a deadly spin and was unable to pull up the nose before crashing. The accuracy was such that the incriminating records were burnt. Just purchased! Not only was the aircraft missing but no one knew where the pilot had intended to fly to. Each day we'll be sending you a selection of our top stories from across our county, as well as breaking news so you can be the first to know. The official was not surprised by the news; the Society had a Super Cub out on loan for a week, which was returned around lunchtime that day. %PDF-1.5 % At the time, many small airfields had a book in which pilots would log their departure and then sign off upon their return. Copyright & Trade Mark Notice & 2013 - 2023, Contact Us Newspaper House Bonnet parade and singing highlights of Alton School Easter assembly . The training fleet consists of the following types: The club uses three Skylaunch winches, normally delivering launch heights of 1500ft and over 2000ft in strong winds. This caused severe damage to the tail and left wing. It is believed he had corrected the spin and was trying to pull up but ran out of height and slammed into the rocky hillside overlooking the Gariep Dam Airfield at high speed. I won't send you spam. There was no fire. What is very likely is that the pilot got lost, but that can already gleaned from Sylvias blog here. This combination of low flying and increased engine worried the witness, who noted that the time was 12:12 exactly. Lasham Gliding Society Registered address: Lasham Airfield, The Avenue, Alton, Hants, GU34 5SS, Registered in England. The pilot attempted to turn back to the airfield but hit the ground whilst turning and impacted one of the airfield hangars. That afternoon, another club member spoke to the same official and mentioned that a Super Cub was missing. On Tuesday, the 31st of August, the details of the missing flight was featured in local newspapers and broadcast on television. Lasham Gliding Society. As I was reading, I wondered: what distinguishes an airfield from an aerodrome from an airport? The wreckage of the glider was examined by experts before being taken away for further investigation into why it crashed. Travelling at 60-70 miles per hour (96-112 kmh), it impacted nose first, almost vertically. This would affect every aspect of the flight, from the decision to carry on just a few hundred feet above the ground to losing control once theyd flown over the power cables. The club also operates five tugs: and can call on several privately owned tugs in busy periods. A spokesperson for SCAS added: "We were called at 15:58 to a glider that had come down in Lasham. There was no trail of damage on the tree tops which might have attracted the attention of the aerial searchers. A glider crash at a Hampshire airfield has seen one person taken to hospital after being freed by emergency services. Then it continued south down the valley, remaining under the low clouds. A busy day of glider launching at Lasham. "If any safety issues are identified, we may issue safety recommendations intended to prevent similar accidents in the future. The following morning, a club member reported to one of the Society officials that the Super Cub was not in the hanger. 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'It is a tragic loss that will be hard felt among the gliding community. Her body was taken to a nearby hospital mortuary where a post-mortem examination will be carried out early next week to establish the exact cause of her death. The Basingstoke Police were the first to know that there was a missing aircraft, as the Lasham Gliding Society manager had phoned to ask about any reports of a forced landing or crash. Lasham Gliding Society Registered address: Lasham Airfield, The Avenue, Alton, Hants, GU34 5SS, Registered in England. 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LASHAM Gliding Society has paid tribute to one of its key members, killed when his glider crashed into a rocky hillside in South Africa. Usually, the reports and analysis would be done in conjunction with the Rescue Co-ordination Centre but the police station had not dealt with such a situation before and worked through the incoming reports on their own. It later signed a long lease on the airfield from the Ministry of Defence. The person who was freed was then assessed and treated at the scene for non life-threatening injuries and was taken by SCAS crews to Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital. One man was in a garden two miles west of Lasham when he saw a glider approximately one . Many of the pilots were also glider pilots. 'The accident is currently under investigation by the South African Civil Aviation Authority and the provincial police. One glider crashed on the airfield with two. The final report by the Accidents Investigation Branch in the Department of Trade and Industry concluded that there was nothing wrong with the aircraft. Please report any comments that break our rules. It couldn't be simpler and it takes seconds - simply press here OR here, enter your email address and follow the instructions. The report says that when Mr Robertson - in a Skylark glider - saw Mr Purnell in his Ventus glider, his instinctive reaction was to start descending, but he was not sure whether he had been able to take any action before the collision. Copyright Lasham Gliding Society 2021 Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed after collision with K-8B Glider, at Lasham, Hampshire, 23/5/1970 Police were also informed. u\@!$fd`bdXc` ; X Pausing briefly yesterday, to see a Boeing 727 depart from our friends at 2Excel. Copyright 2021 Lasham Gliding Society, Anonymous Lasham Airfield Accidental Damage Report, FEB 2022 Airspace in .cub format for Oudie and LX (right click to save). We sent to the scene two ambulance crews, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance and an ambulance officer. But they were dismissed as having occurred before the aircraft had departed. 'Peter joined Lasham in December 1983 and was our Chairman in 2014. %%EOF Firefighters from Basingstoke and Alton station were called to the airfield of local flying club in Alton at 15:59 on Monday 20th September 2021. $.XI!LTj}9XRZlk5rCiHP$%"R4A) 2+'$G7*ALB(NxxR#CW3Y~urzj1-vK>O[$3VOq=JP[b;&mEL4{nm-$=uY SxBUpmz$6 . E"V$3j&OxGfx|xenZqc^~B7-i$uBa 0 @ Company registration no: IP15094R VAT Reg No: 818 2876 00 Privacy Statement| Terms of Use All Rights Reserved. Sign up here to receive my weekly post in your inbox. Do yo know if any of your Ebook partners offer something like "print on demand"? As always you can unsubscribe at any time. However, as most of the flights at Lasham Gliding Society were short, local area flights for towing, they did not have such systems in place and did not keep a booking-out book. I agree. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. Is there a CO detector requirement for general aviation? The aircraft did not have IFR instruments and there was no radio equipment. 'If you have enough height you can stop the spin and dive to regain lift but if you are too close to the ground say 1000 feet or less then it is very hard to get out of trouble. There was nothing obviously wrong with the aircraft, other than the filler cap to the port fuel tank was missing. The heater system controls were set to off but that wasnt necessarily meaningful; the levers had been struck on impact such that they would have been forced closed if open. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, 1st Floor, Chartist Tower, Upper Dock Street, Newport, Wales, NP20 1DW Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. Charlie Hogarth, 20, who lived next-door to the pilot all her life, said: 'He was a nice, considerate guy and very smart. Soon, he literally no longer knew which way was up. cgPMi:waY&muy&d;i Ox/~;% I have been flying gliders here for 33 years and I am wary of it on every single flight' he said. contact the editor here. On the 31st of October, two months after the flight had disappeared, a member of the public walking along a track through the forest saw the wreckage about 50 yards away. The pair took off heading west on runwway 27 at 11:30 local time. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. Neither ASN nor the Flight Safety Foundation are responsible for the completeness or correctness of this information. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can It has for most of its life flown from Lasham Airfield in Hampshire after transferring from Redhill in 1951. 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In 1953 Piggott received the Queen's Commendation for work on developing and introducing new instructional techniques for gliding in the ATC. Then, on final approach, the pilot again began to climb away. Lasham Gliding Society (LGS) was established in 1958 to unify operations of the gliding clubs that had been operating since 1951. The police officer noted the information but it did not occur to anyone that the public sightings should be revisited to see if any had been dismissed based on timing. Required fields are marked *. They are now appealing for witnesses, Drivers warned over bank holiday mistake responsible for many crashes, The AA says not following advice can be 'catastrophic', The Hampshire criminals jailed in April including 'callous' killer who murdered Southampton grandmother, Other offences included arson and manslaughter, Subway worker attacked after confronting thief about stolen sandwich. September passed and then October. 'At the end of the day gliding is an adventurous activity and people understand the risks they are taking but sometimes, fortunately very rarely, things can go tragically wrong' he said. Find out how you can go gliding this summer with Lasham Gliding! Lasham is Europes largest gliding club. Lasham Aerodrome in Hampshire, England, was built in 1942 and used as a base for the RAF Fighter Command. [8] There were approximately 59,000 aircraft movements (departures and landings) in that year (compared with Southampton Airport's 43,350). The two children of the British glider pilot killed on his 60th birthday in South Africa are 'devastated' and considering flying out to join their widowed mother. he said. He was also a qualified glider pilot. He lost all roll and, A Special Offer on Pilot Error (out now! The aircraft was not there. Highly experienced Peter is a member of the Lasham Gliding Society in Alton, Hants, where he instructs and has also been their vice chairman and media spokesman. Emergency services attended the scene around 11.55am on Wednesday but were unable to save Mrs Draper. That Saturday morning, the daily weather forecast was up on the notice board, warning of strong winds and low clouds with a base of 700 feet. The runway, or unpaved landing area itself is typically no more than 1000 metres long. Climatology Temperate Marine climate/Oceanic climate (Kppen climate classification Cfb). On the 28th of August in 1971, G-AYPN departed Lasham Gliding Society and disappeared. Its not clear when the police discovered that the actual departure time was actually two and a half hours earlier, at 11:30. Lasham Airfield (ICAO: EGHL) is an aerodrome 3.6 miles (5.8km) north-west of Alton in Hampshire, England, in the village of Lasham. The accident site was 15 nautical miles south of the aerodrome and at an elevation of 475 feet above mean sea level with young beech and ash trees of 45-50 feet. Ex-G-ALKF; registered as such 8/4/49. The incident took place in a branch of Subway on Portswood Road in Southampton. Something went wrong, please try again later. The accident happened during a solo flight on November 19 - Peter Reading's 60th birthday. I suspect that once you get away from centers of population (into the less-settled areas where private flying is a useful way to get from place to place), a lot of more-careful practices become less common; some of the experiences above seem completely alien to my flying days, which were based just outside Boston. A shop worker was attacked by three men after he confronted a thief who stole a sandwich. It had been imported into the UK that same year and added to the British Register as a PA-19 on the 13th of July 1971. She phoned again on Monday morning and explained that her brother had now been missing for two nights and she was worried. Sold to Lasham Gliding Society in September 1959. A war-surplus barrage balloon winch was used for launches. In the back seat was a non-pilot friend. (Lawrence doesnt even have a tower; airport may be a hangover from when Northeast Airlines flew DC-3s to New York City, over 60 years ago. No flight plans were filed, neither of the planes had radios and the weather briefing was listening to the local AM radio station. Head of Safety Fred Bebington of the Soaring Society of South Africa confirmed that a pilot had died whilst flying at Gariep Dam but was awaiting more information. 'He always had a friendly word to say and loved all the dogs on the road. Squadrons equipped with Hawker Hurricanes, Hawker Typhoons and Supermarine Spitfires operated from Lasham. This information is added by users of ASN. A man has died after the glider he was piloting crashed into a field in West Sussex. Thus, both times when a Super Cub was reported missing, the official was aware that there was a Super Cub known to be elsewhere. Surrey England Cakes and jams kept duo at Alton Friday Market for decades. This ALS system cut him out I believe. Chief Executive Officer of the British Gliding Association Peter Stratten said:' Peter was a very experienced pilot and was both a professional commercial pilot and a recreational glider pilot. Privacy Statement | Terms of Use The pilot is flying low, attempting to remain in visual conditions. It was in a heavily wooded area about four miles south of Petersfield and just one mile south of the Buriton railway tunnel. The two occupants clearly died on impact, so a speedier response from search and rescue would not have otherwise made a difference. Its current captain is Antoine Aulnette. 'He has a passion for flying and was always telling us all about the places he'd flown to.'. On the 3rd of September, a member of the public reported to the Hampshire police that theyd seen an aircraft north of Midhurst. After the war, it became the home of the Army Gliding Club. Permission to operate into, or out of them, must be obtained from the operator by prior arrangement. I'm excited and thanks for the discount. That day, the cloud base was about 600 feet above mean sea level with a light drizzle. hb``d``*``a`0 |@1V p_LLDJ D -`y:(q?JL With operations run as loose as they were 50 years ago, flight safety came down to the common sense of the pilot and a lot of luck. For a moment, it seemed that the pilot was flying a left-hand circuit to land. Farnham Then a train passed by, drowning out any sounds from the aircraft. Crews supported South Central Ambulance Service with the extrication of one male from the glider - he is now in their care. Somewhat relieved, the Society officials considered that perhaps the pilot had simply borrowed the aircraft for the weekend without asking permission. The history of flying is always interesting to me. Two witnesses on the ground appear to have seen the glider as the accident occurred. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Of all of the reported sightings, only two were actually of G-AYPN. [15] New owners of ATC Lasham Ltd, 2Excel Engineering Ltd, signed a new lease with the Society on 23 December 2015 and have continued to maintain large jet aircraft at Lasham. Sandown requires prior permission, but they had not received a request for any inbound aircraft from Lasham. They contacted the Coastguard and other ships asking for any sightings of the aircraft. ), Your email address will not be published. Firefighters from both Basingstoke and Alton were called to the scene and crews from South Coast Ambulance Service (SCAS) and the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance also attended. Piper initially designed the PA-19 as a military variant of the PA-18, in response to the US Armys call for liaison aircraft. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. We refer to an airport as a piece of real estate with one or more paved runways, usually taxiways, some infrastructure like a terminal building or a restaurant, generally open to the public and some form of control tower. Nearest towns include Basingstoke, Winchester, Guildford and there are great road and rails links close by. While the weather on the day of the accident may have been changeable, it was still suitable for flying, the report says. A scenario presents itself. One glider crashed on the airfield with two persons on board. He has flown gliders all over the world and competes in the British Nationals supported by wife of 31 years Ingrid who works as an exam invigilator in Surrey. One clearing pass to see there were no cars on the road, taxi up into the parking lot of the Baptist Church and it was only a 2 block walk to grandmothers house. Inaya-Lei has links to Eastleigh, Basingstoke and Southampton. In 1999, Lasham Gliding Society completed the purchase from the Ministry of Defence of the freehold to the airfield, making the final payment in 2001. It was clear from the start that the clouds were low enough to make it difficult for a visual flight. He was trying to correct a full speed dive when the carbon and kevlar high performance glider hit the ground and disintegrated into bits on impact killing tragic Peter instantly. Observers at the launchpoint saw the glider approach the airfield at slow speed in a nose high attitude. The pilot usually phoned from home to get the weather forecast before leaving for the aerodrome, but it is not clear if he did that day or if he saw the forecast on the notice board. [3][4] It now owns all of the land within the fenced and gated area as well as the fields that form the undershoot area at each end of the main runway. It was impossible to prove when it had come off, but it didnt really matter. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to We know for sure that they are not aerodromes. Perhaps he meant to descend in order to regain visibility; however, there is no chance that he meant to descend so steeply, knowing that he was just over the trees. Types flown included Slingsby T.21B trainer, Grunau Baby, and various other pre-war German sailplanes. To the south, the cloud base was as slow as 500 feet with the occasional drizzle. Although, who am I to write that? All of them went on to become British champions. Also in the news. British glider pilot dies in 150mph cliff crash while celebrating 60th birthday Peter Reading, 60, of Surrey was enjoying a romantic gliding holiday in South Africa with his wife Ingrid, 59,. 'He did a lot of voluntary work as well for his club at Lasham and would be in amongst the top 100 glider pilots in the UK. The difference between an aerodrome and an airport is not really very clearly defined. 114-115 West Street 148 K-13 substantial 08/08/15, 15:00 lasham GS 55/40 none/none 407 Introductory flight ended in a field landing. B>CO?8`X`H2l53|js;:]r6:8ous%%3G&"#]ExKTeWl^3`y~kza,qqAtw9Zfzhp}Vb%hesmg!m|%g1gV]fQ:!|TmkA^4`/ES>^.yBy&wH One of the pilots, who escaped unhurt after ejecting with a parachute, came down in woodlands near Lasham airfield in Alton, off the A339. The tops of the pylons carrying the cables are at 575 feet above mean sea level. "They were assessing and treating one patient for non life threatening injuries, following treatment at the scene by our crews the patient was taken to North Hampshire Hospital.". Indeed, initially the pilot appeared to turn back, lining up to land back at Lasham after accidentally flying into the low cloud. The power cables were not marked on the pilots chart. Emergency services were called to a field near Hurston Lane in Storrington just before 11am today (Saturday 24. It is thought wife Ingrid was relaxing at the airfield cafe awaiting the return of her husband who had clocked up over 40 hours of flying so far during their gliding holiday. 'We don't know exactly what happened but it would seem he was flying too slow and lost lift on a wing and stalled and he went into a spin and spiralled down into the hill. By Powered aircraft at Lasham are rare, with an obvious exception of tugs for the gliders, and inbound flights need special permission unless there is a genuine emergency. Still, it seems odd for the pilot to have continued the flight in the first place. Later in 1943, it became a base for the bombers of No. The Rescue Co-ordination Centre was also unable to take any practical action without knowing where to search. As they climbed safely over the cables, the Super Cub entered the clouds. However, it still recommends that the British Gliding Association review its operational advice to pilots flying in "marginal conditions". Very lucky. Another riveting write-up, thank you, Sylvia! 2 Group RAF, part of the RAF Second Tactical Air Force. Kay Draper, who won the first British Women's Championships for hang-gliding before joining the talented British team, was flying solo on a trip from Lasham Airfield in Hampshire when her aircraft came down near Bradley, less than 10 miles away. To BGA631, and named "Daisy". He was not rated for night flying or for instrument flight. 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Mr Purnell was declared dead at the scene as a result of multiple injuries and an inquest jury in September last year returned a verdict of accidental death. The railway runs south from Petersfield through the Buriton railway tunnel below high ground of about five hundred feet above mean sea level and then south through the valley, with hills reaching 650 feet above mean sea level. A Gannett Company. Mr Forsyth has been a member of the Lasham Gliding Society since March of 1992. Mrs Draper, an occupational therapist from Marlborough, Wiltshire, who specialised in helping patients with catastrophic injuries, had been piloting gliders for nearly 20 years and competed internationally as a hang glider pilot, winning the first British Women's Championships. One person on the northern outskirts of Petersfield reported seeing the Super Cub low beneath the clouds, about 200-300 feet above the ground, flying south. Get the latest news, entertainment, and top stories about Lasham from the BBC No one ever thought to mention that, at the time of both reports, there were two Super Cubs missing.
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