Engine failure caused plane crash
6:41am Thursday 14th February 2008
Comments (0)ENGINE failure caused a plane to crash near Seend, according to an accident report released this week.
The Department of Transport's Air Accident Investigation Branch looked into the crash, which happened near Berhills Lane on August 2 last year.
A single-engine Pegasus X1-R carrying the 36-year-old pilot and one passenger crash-landed at 10am, after the engine cut out without warning.
On touchdown, the aircraft rolled down a slope and its nose went into a ditch and flipped over onto a boundary fence.
Miraculously neither occupant suffered any injury but the aircraft suffered major damage to its wing, trike and rigging wires.
The report said: "A subsequent investigation did not reveal the reason for the engine failure; it had not seized and the ignition system was found to be serviceable."
The pilot, who is not identified in the report, held a National Private Pilot's Licence.
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