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screwdriver had ejected from the aircraft's tail section during the accident. Inspection of the left elevator attachment fitting revealed gouges not consistent with damage caused during the impact. It was deemed that the screwdriver handle was the most likely source of the fragment taken from the elevator quadrant cable end fitting. It was determined that the screwdriver had entered the tail section via the top of the rear
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A screwdriver was located approximately 15 metres from the crash site and its position aligned with the tail wheel 100 metres away and the tail section in the wreckage. Several fresh-looking abrasions were apparent on several areas of the screwdriver's handle. The investigation determined that the
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and got clearance to conduct aerobatics. The aircraft then did a clockwise orbit above
Feilding Aerodrome to climb to 3,000 feet. Upon reaching 3,000 feet, the aircraft conducted a loop. After finishing the loop, the aircraft requested a further climb to 3,500 feet, which was approved. At this
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in which Saxe was a member. The airframe and engine had, at the time of the crash, accumulated 266.5 hours of total flight time. There were no deferred maintenance inspections or defects recorded. A weight and balance calculation placed the centre of gravity for the aircraft within the limits
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with an instrument and aerobatic rating. His total flying time amounted to approximately 2,900 hours with 52 of those hours flown in the incident aircraft. He was a doctor with expertise in facial sculpting. Dr Brett
Ireland, the only passenger, was 50 and was friends with Saxe. He was a
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in March 2012, mandating the fitment of a barrier into the rear fuselage of all Yak 52 models. The
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pilot who witnessed the slow roll maneuver described "to what looked like the last half of a slow roll". He stated it as "standard" until suddenly the aircraft went into a steep 45 to 50
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was a tail-wheel version of the Yak 52 that was the aircraft involved in the crash. It was a fully aerobatic aircraft of all metal construction. It was manufactured in 2003 in
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was also notified but declined to investigate. A CAA investigation started on 24 January 2012, a day after the accident.
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397:"AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT REPORT OCCURRENCE NUMBER 12/218 AEROSTAR YAK-52TW"
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on runway 28. Two minutes later the aircraft contacted Ohakea
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Accidents and incidents involving the
Yakovlev Yak-52
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restricting elevator control following a slow roll.
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453:"Air crash pair 'wouldn't have had a chance'"
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943:Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251
933:Ljubljana Marshes hot air balloon crash
404:Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
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273:at 3,000 feet. The aircraft received a
33:Aircraft involved in the crash in 2008
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993:South African Air Force C-47 crash
426:"Two dead in Feilding plane crash"
14:
983:Aéro-Service Ilyushin Il-76 crash
823:Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet crash
269:requesting permission to conduct
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763:Katanga Express Gulfstream crash
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586:Moncrieff and Hood disappearance
249:specified for aerobatic flight.
773:Norwegian Air Force C-130 crash
743:Carterton hot air balloon crash
657:Carterton hot air balloon crash
478:"Two dead in small plane crash"
1053:Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268
1043:Kazakhstan Antonov An-72 crash
913:Philippines Piper Seneca crash
873:Indonesian Air Force F27 crash
278:altitude, the aircraft made a
192:plane crashed at Timona Park,
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1149:2012 disasters in New Zealand
1023:Nizhnevartovskavia Flight 544
963:Queensland DH.84 Dragon crash
883:Turkish F-4 Phantom shootdown
863:Kenya Police helicopter crash
622:Ansett New Zealand Flight 703
430:Otago Daily Times Online News
893:Tianjin Airlines Flight 7554
669:Fox Glacier helicopter crash
592:Liberator crash at Whenuapai
261:a.m., the aircraft departed
803:Virginia Beach F/A-18 crash
610:Air New Zealand Flight 4374
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833:Agni Air Dornier 228 crash
616:Auckland mid-air collision
604:Air New Zealand DC-8 crash
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923:Sudan Antonov An-26 crash
903:Rampayoh helicopter crash
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675:LATAM Airlines Flight 800
645:Eagle Airways Flight 2279
47:23 January 2012
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973:FlyMontserrat Flight 107
1003:Mexico Learjet 25 crash
753:Timona Park plane crash
663:Timona Park plane crash
651:Fox Glacier FU-24 crash
353:Airworthiness Directive
347:Airworthiness Directive
22:Timona Park plane crash
1013:Amazon Sky An-26 crash
188:On 23 January 2012, a
843:Allied Air Flight 111
358:foreign object debris
218:private pilot licence
1033:Air Bagan Flight 011
853:Dana Air Flight 0992
813:Bhoja Air Flight 213
271:aerobatic manoeuvres
96:40.2245°S 175.5826°E
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641:(May 2005)
531:10 January
506:10 January
462:10 January
436:10 January
410:10 January
364:References
284:north-west
280:stall turn
171:Fatalities
155:Passengers
84:40°13′28″S
51:2012-01-23
288:slow roll
212:Occupants
202:slow roll
179:Survivors
147:Occupants
1154:Feilding
1096:Aviation
337:fuselage
302:nosedive
257:At 10:35
253:Accident
238:Yak-52TW
235:Aerostar
229:Aircraft
198:elevator
194:Feilding
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112:Aircraft
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242:Romania
59:Summary
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