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Date: | Saturday 17 June 2017 |
Time: | 13:50 LT |
Type: | Steen Skybolt |
Owner/operator: | Trustee of the G-SKIE Group |
Registration: | G-SKIE |
MSN: | AACA/357 |
Year of manufacture: | 1989 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Minor |
Location: | 14th Fairway, Westhoughton Golf Course, Bolton, Lancashire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Barton City Airport,Liverpool Rd, Eccles, Manchester (ECCB) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:A light aircraft encountered engine difficulties which subsequently made an emergency landing on the 14th Fairway at Westhoughton Golf Course, Bolton, Lancashire. The aircraft had taken off from Barton (City) Airport in Eccles, Manchester, when it force landed.
Bolton firefighters attend at 1.50pm following reports of crashed plane but arrived to find no one injured and the pilot, believed to be from Wilmslow, shaken but unharmed.
An air ambulance passing overhead at the time of the incident also landed at the course to offer assistance.
Sources:
1.
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/15354709.PICTURED__Aircraft_makes_emergency_landing_on_golf_course/ 2.
https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?catid=1&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=reg&fullregmark=SKIE 3.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-manchester-40319920/biplane-makes-emergency-landing-on-bolton-golf-course 4.
5.
https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?142602-G-SKIE-finds-golf-course-in-Bolton&s=fb831f8e2850dcd0a210d9f852568e4e
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
24 June 2018 |
G-SKIE |
Trustee of the G-SKIE Group |
0 |
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Images:
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Sleap Airfield (EGCV) Shropshire, UK - 23rd December 2007
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Manchester- Barton Airfield (EGCB) Lancashire, UK - 12th April 2007
Media:
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Jun-2017 19:00 |
Paul_s |
Added |
17-Jun-2017 19:01 |
harro |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
17-Jun-2017 21:35 |
Geno |
Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Departure airport, Source] |
17-Jun-2017 21:41 |
Iceman 29 |
Updated [Embed code] |
18-Jun-2017 09:47 |
Aerossurance |
Updated [Location, Embed code] |
18-Jun-2017 22:08 |
Aerossurance |
Updated [Source] |
21-Jun-2017 15:29 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
21-Jun-2017 15:31 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
23-Feb-2020 07:42 |
Peter Clarke |
Updated [Photo] |
30-Mar-2020 18:13 |
Peter Clarke |
Updated [Photo] |