'Peter joined Lasham in December 1983 and was our Chairman in 2014. 09:34 BST 22 Nov 2018 You can also subscribe without commenting. It was impossible to prove when it had come off, but it didnt really matter. 3[OX6m]hpl@8%^`wvWv.t;#R2w3"'OAp"PUT TQ]o gq' Y#xb z o 50 views 3 weeks. ", Kay Draper was flying solo on a trip from Lasham Airfield in Hampshire, The glider, powered by a small back-up engine, had come down in a cornfield near to Southwood Farm field breaking into piece. cgPMi:waY&muy&d;i Ox/~;% There were a small number of pilots who flew the aircraft on behalf of the club. Derek Piggott was Chief Flying Instructor at Lasham during much of the period from 1953 to 1989. The Rescue Coordination Centre searched the area, but nothing was found. They contacted the Coastguard and other ships asking for any sightings of the aircraft. Pilot dies after glider crashes into field near Storrington, West The crash happened at approximately 7-30 pm and a call was made to the emergency services at 7-36 pm. The tops of the pylons carrying the cables are at 575 feet above mean sea level. The Rescue Co-ordination Centre was also unable to take any practical action without knowing where to search. The airfield frequency is 131.03 MHz. 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A Hampshire police spokeswoman said: "Kay Draper died when the glider she was piloting came down in a field. "Crews supported South Central Ambulance Service with the extrication of one male from the glider he is now in their care. She was a member of the British Team that won the first Women's European and Women's World Championships. 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. A spokesperson for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire Service said: "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. He was also a qualified glider pilot. On 14 April 1944, at the request of resistance workers, six Mosquitos of 613 Squadron led by Wing Commander Robert Bateson bombed the Central Records Registry of the Gestapo in The Hague from a height of 50ft (15m). Charlie Hogarth, 20, who lived next-door to the pilot all her life, said: 'He was a nice, considerate guy and very smart. Piper did not immediately get the expected military orders and considered releasing the aircraft for civil use, which may be why they reverted to the PA-18 designation: once in production, the military variant became known as the L-18C Super Cub. 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. [3][4] He was not rated for night flying or for instrument flight. After the war, it became the home of the Army Gliding Club. The following morning, a club member reported to one of the Society officials that the Super Cub was not in the hanger. In the back seat was a non-pilot friend. This caused severe damage to the tail and left wing. A scenario presents itself. Very lucky. [17] Six bmibaby 737s arrived in 2012 when the airline closed. Farnham One glider crashed on the airfield with two. In 1971, the Lasham Gliding Society had four light aircraft that they leased from Air Tows Limited. A speedy response requires that search teams know as soon as possible that a crash may have occurred and at least an idea where the crash may have occurred. To the north, the cloud base was between 1200 and 1800 feet. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . Oerlinghausen Airfield claims to be the world's largest gliding club with "around 25,000" glider launches annually[7] whereas Lasham launched 25,750 gliders in the year to 31 October 2014. Employees of the Forestry Commission had passed very close as well but again, in the dense foliage, they did not see the wreckage. However, the Society were not required to keep a record of tug movements and they did not do so. Lasham Gliding Society. Lasham Youth run a Saturday Evening gliding course during the summer months which is open to everyone, providing an environment where young members can fly with people of similar ages. A spokesperson for SCAS added: "We were called at 15:58 to a glider that had come down in Lasham. 114-115 West Street Permission to operate into, or out of them, must be obtained from the operator by prior arrangement. But on Monday he chose to fly alone with plans to glide for over five hours to celebrate his 60th birthday and was launched from the airfield next to the Gariep Dam after dawn. However, it still recommends that the British Gliding Association review its operational advice to pilots flying in "marginal conditions". 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. hb``d``*``a`0 |@1V p_LLDJ D -`y:(q?JL Firefighters from Basingstoke, Alton, Alresford, Hartley Wintney, Tadley and Bordon spent more than two hours fighting the fire . Crash report calls for glider review | Daily Echo The pilot allowed the glider to get too low, too far from the airfield and attempted to stretch the glide back. Between 1972 and 1974 Lasham airfield regularly hosted six Douglas DC3 Dakotas owned by Roger Byron-Collins' Macedonian Aviation based at Southend airport for care and maintenance and resprays under arrangements with Dan-Air. Someone mentioned that the pilot might have flown to Scotland.They waited until dusk, hoping the Super Cub would appear and it would all be a big laugh. Several aircraft were parked at Lasham during the COVID-19 recession, including some from easyJet, TUI and Ryanair.[18]. The exhaust unit had been pressure tested in May and visually examined in June and again in August. In mid-1943, the airfield was transferred to RAF Fighter Command. It operated at Odiham Airfield, but after two accidents, the Commandant of Sandhurst ordered it to suspend operations. ), This page was last edited on 18 April 2023, at 07:44. His total flying time was not really great, not enough to embark on a cross-country flight in very marginal weather The fuel selector was set to the starboard tank, which had still held fuel when it ruptured on impact. The advantages of this for us are that we have full use of Lashams fleet of gliders (as well as our own) and facilities. 'He has a passion for flying and was always telling us all about the places he'd flown to.'. An experienced commercial pilot, and rated as one of Britain's top 100 glider pilots, having flown gliders all . 4 3X/m|6&qhjzP#W$Ev =_J TM%kPM`l@73azINzc9ec+A`Rn>Y(}8Su#LFa9GswPz!iTLG8"h#jq*3LdkAw]Tf,_*{B/eZoYhl-k}j3#S2Qt3#X U*kKiM?L=-)Yq7e8|1z9))7} Imperial College Gliding Club is the oldest, and one of the largest, university gliding clubs in the United Kingdom. Police confirmed work was already underway involving the Air Accident Investigation Branch, based at Farnborough, to find out more details. "PrI@f`X,mPG U Talented pilot, 60, who died after glider crashed into field is named In 2008 these included aircraft from XL Airways UK, Futura International Airways, Zoom Airlines. Lasham Gliding Daily Briefing- Monday 24th April 2023 - YouTube For a moment, it seemed that the pilot was flying a left-hand circuit to land. Nearest towns include Basingstoke, Winchester, Guildford and there are great road and rails links close by. Company registration no: IP15094R 19:12 BST 22 Nov 2018. 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. Firefighters from Basingstoke and Alton station were called to Lasham Gliding Society,local flying club in Alton at 03:59 on Monday 20th September 2021. The heat muffler had deposits of lead and bromine on the heater mufflers exhaust, left behind by the high octane fuel fumes which had seeped through the cracks into the heater system. He was devoted to his poodle cross, Dougle. The history of flying is always interesting to me. Required fields are marked *. 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. Eventually he probably got vertigo, or maybe he became victim of fumes from a broken heater. Of course, places like London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt am Main, Amsterdam Schiphol, Madrid Barajas, John F Kennedy NY, etc, are all large airports. Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed after collision with K-8B Glider, at Lasham, Hampshire, 23/5/1970 When I was a kid a friends father would land Crop Dusters on it to refuel and top up the spray tanks. Then, on final approach, the pilot again began to climb away. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can www.lashamgliding.com / 01256384900 See more. The visibility that day was variable, with a warm, moist and cloudy airstream covering the area. The accident happened during a solo flight on November 19 - Peter Reading's 60th birthday. 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. As the police attempted to retrace the steps of the aircraft, they knew only that it had departed from the airport and flew south, keeping below the bad weather. Also displayed were photographs and other details of aircraft and personnel of the squadrons that flew from Lasham and are listed below. The wreckage of the glider was examined by experts before being taken away for further investigation into why it crashed. To the south, the cloud base was as slow as 500 feet with the occasional drizzle. 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. Crews from Alton, Basingstoke, Alresford, Hartley Wintney and Tadley were mobilised to the fire at 5.21am this morning with eight fire engines being sent to assist. With a map that had large white segments with the comment: No relief data due to incomplete survey. [6] The airfield is in constant use throughout the year and regularly hosts national and regional gliding championships. An inquest will be opened and adjourned at a later date. The airfield was built on farmland in 1942, causing the A339 (Alton-Basingstoke road) to be diverted to the west from Lasham village. As well as Tony Deane-Drummond, other notable instructors at that time included Ann Welch, Lorne Welch and Philip Wills. Rescuers raced to the scene but the glass fibre shell of the glider had shattered into hundreds of pieces and Peter's body was found amongst the scattered wreckage. This ALS system cut him out I believe. Over-flying aircraft are requested to not fly below 3,618ft (1,103m) QNH. In this video I analyse this accident, where a number of factors combine to create this accident. Gun and knife seen during fight in Sandown, Officers attended the scene and found a man with facial injuries. Yesterday at 8:37 AM. [10] Founded in 1930, the club was the second club to become affiliated to the British Gliding Association. Company registration no: IP15094R VAT Reg No: 818 2876 00 Privacy Statement| Terms of Use The aircraft was flying low in poor visibility in a valley obstructed by high tension power cables. 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. He would have been doing 250kph. Luck ran out for this pilot and his friend. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. 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. Nearest towns include Basingstoke, Winchester, Guildford and there are great road and rails links close by. The airfield ceased to be an operational Royal Air Force station in 1948, though General Aircraft Ltd continued testing military gliders there. More than twenty firefighters from across north Hampshire have dealt with a serious fire at Lasham gliding club near Alton. Eye witnesses said he got into difficulties shortly after take-off and it is thought the glider stalled due to lack of speed and it went into a deadly spin heading earthwards. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. On Tuesday, the 31st of August, the details of the missing flight was featured in local newspapers and broadcast on television. As the wreckage was not found for two months, the postmortem analysis gave very little information. That year, the Surrey Gliding Club and the Imperial College Gliding Club also moved to Lasham, as their aerodromes were becoming too busy for gliding. A man has died after the glider he was piloting crashed into a field in West Sussex. One glider crashed on the airfield with two persons on board. OTOH much smaller nearby operations at Lawrence and Norwood call themselves airports. Congratulations to Jansen Barralet on passing his Cross Country endorsement this week making him a qualified pilot at 17! z|C2sHg `>i_i`&qgb&FEl5qyQ~_xH? The club also operates five tugs: and can call on several privately owned tugs in busy periods. He presumed that the reports were referring to one of these two aircraft. Climatology Temperate Marine climate/Oceanic climate (Kppen climate classification Cfb). Stealth pun, Something definitely not correct here!!!! 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. $.XI!LTj}9XRZlk5rCiHP$%"R4A) 2+'$G7*ALB(NxxR#CW3Y~urzj1-vK>O[$3VOq=JP[b;&mEL4{nm-$=uY SxBUpmz$6 . Its current captain is Antoine Aulnette. By the time that they were clear of the clouds, the Super Cub was diving through the tree tops, seconds from impact. Firefighters from Basingstoke and - Hampshire Incidents | Facebook I completed my first solo cross-country flight in weather conditions that were no better, over the Nigerian jungle. Lasham - Latest News, Headlines and Entertainment from the BBC They passed the information that an aircraft had gone missing to all Hampshire stations, including the Aldershot police, who are responsible for Lasham and the surrounding area. More damning was a fatigue crack in the cabin heaters heat exchange unit. Figure 1 shows the track of the glider beginning on the ground at Lasham at 0953 hrs (airborne at 1020 hrs) to about 550 ft above the accident site at 1043:20 hrs, 4.5km . She phoned again on Monday morning and explained that her brother had now been missing for two nights and she was worried. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, 1st Floor, Chartist Tower, Upper Dock Street, Newport, Wales, NP20 1DW Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. I won't send you spam. What is very likely is that the pilot got lost, but that can already gleaned from Sylvias blog here. Peter and Ingrid married in 1987 and had son Guy, 28, who is an informatics scientist with llika in Southampton and a daughter Gemma, 26. Just across the railroad tracks from my grandparents business the 2 lane highway had a 1/2 mile straight stretch with no power lines crossing it. Privacy Statement | Terms of Use The material he collected for this report formed the basis of his novel Lord of the Levels. Since then, it had flown a total of seven hours flight time. Do yo know if any of your Ebook partners offer something like "print on demand"? The airfield is now the home of the largest British gliding club, also one of the world's largest, Lasham Gliding Society Ltd (LGS), which bought the land in 1999 from the Ministry of Defence. Lasham Airfield - Wikipedia Accident Slingsby T.21 BGA 631, 23 May 1970 - Aviation Safety 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. On Monday (September 20) a glider crashed with two people on board at Lasham Airfield near Alton. Congratulations to Keith Fowler, sent solo today by Mark Davenport! [11] The club started by building its own glider Payne I.C.1. At 12:12, an eye witness saw the Super Cub flying low over the tunnel and into the valley, following the line of the tracks. At that time, the clouds were about 600 feet above mean sea level which put them at the same height as the power cables across the valley. 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. u\@!$fd`bdXc` ; X If you feel this information is incomplete or incorrect, you can. Man injured in Lasham gliding accident | farnhamherald.com (1) That consideration be given to a requirement for flying clubs or groups to maintain a log and adequate supervision of their powered aircrafts activities. One man was in a garden two miles west of Lasham when he saw a glider approximately one .
