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Old 11th Dec 2015, 07:42
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by Chris Scott
By the end of the year, we were down to two Chippies. One had stalled in a low turn over the home of a girl the solo student was trying to impress, passing between two trees before hitting the ground, The engine continued for some distance... The other, flying dual, had failed to go-around from a low approach during a practice forced-landing, hitting a stone wall. All three pilots survived with minor injuries at worst, but from then on the type was more or less inaccessible for the rest of us.
Presumably G-AOSA at Coupar Angus (4th December) and G-AOJZ (31st May), respectively, although the BoT report on the former suggests it was also a PFL that went wrong (it did end up in the intended field after hitting the trees ).

Photo here of G-AOJZ, which was recovered and subsequently used as an instructional airframe, spuriously marked as "G-ASTD": https://www.flickr.com/photos/paul-thallon/8473987212
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