Loss of Trident G-ARPY

[Garry Russell]

I've not seen this pics before

Bottom of the page

http://www.felthorpe.net/History.html


Before it's first and only flight

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neil_lomax/3608740744/

[TobyV]

I hadn't seen those top photos before either. I always assumed it must have broken up on impact, but looking at that it must have come down almost flat and appears to be more intact than G-ARPI 6 years later in a similar accident. RIP, those on board.

[Garry Russell]

I remember it being on the TV News the day it happened.

As you say it seems to have been very flat and everything just about in the right place. The One-Eleven G-ASHG did the same thing and that was pretty much together but flat, the difference there was the aircraft caught fire, but the burned out wreckage was very One-Eleven shaped.

Previous to this the pic I linked for completeness was the only image I ever saw before of G-ARPY, being the penultimate I guess it would have slipped through test unnoticed had it not been for the crash, so perhap the pic of it on the 'Flight Line' is the only one.