NZFF

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 7:11 pm**

Just heard that there was a collision on a taxiway at Ardmore today. :unsure:

It appears that an aircraft was exiting the runway and collided with another on the taxiway. The aircraft involved were ZK-XAT & ZK-TAT. Both are operated by Ardmore Flying School. XAT is one of the new G1000 aircraft acquired recently. Only wings on both aircraft were damaged, severity unknown at this stage. :ph43r:

No injuries at all

More details will follow as soon as I know.

~ZK-KAG~

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 7:24 pm**

Will ask my friend ( who is an instructer at AAC ) to see if he knows anything

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 7:30 pm**

Lol nothing major
Both should be back in the fleet soon.
TAQ is going off to get a new engine.

Here is how it goes

TAT is going to get repaired using parts from XAT
XAT is going to get repaired using parts from TAQ while its in geting a new engine.

That means both planes will be back in the fleet in no time.

TAQ will get its long awaited engine (its chuggin through the oil atm)

Then i think they will get all their parts back or TAQ gets new ones

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 7:36 pm**

Any details on the incident Travis?

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 8:18 pm**

hah ardmore flying school would never of guessed that :unsure:

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 10:46 pm**

Not Yet
Will tell you tomorrow!
Got back from my XC and only really heard about it and how it may effect me.
XAT was up at WR with me so it must have happened reasonably late in the arvo!

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 11:12 pm**

I know all, but it isnt nice to spread stuff about accidents as it is something anybody could do.... and everyone should be grateful there wasnt any injuries/major damage...

Posted: **Thu May 31, 2007 9:41 am**

kiwiflyboy wrote: I know all, but it isnt nice to spread stuff about accidents as it is something anybody could do.... and everyone should be grateful there wasnt any injuries/major damage...

Fully agreed...

And if you read the tone of my first post, it passes no comment on the event, its merely an informative bit of info.

Its just a little amusing how things go round in this aviation training community of New Zealand, and who says what and who says nothing...

~ZK-KAG~

Posted: **Thu May 31, 2007 11:56 am**

Technically this is an accident isnt it? as it involved damage to an aircraft...

i'm just trying to re-acquaint myself with air law...

Posted: **Thu May 31, 2007 12:52 pm**

Flew TAQ this morning; seems like it's going off to maintenance either this afternoon or tomorrow sometime. TAQ is losing one wing which will be bolted on to XAT, and TAQ will then get a new wing. (well, hopefully anyway

)

Posted: **Thu May 31, 2007 3:07 pm**

At least it wasnt ZK-TAJ

Posted: **Thu May 31, 2007 9:02 pm**

h290master wrote: At least it wasnt ZK-TAJ

Its nice (borat voice)

Inside Joke

Posted: **Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:29 pm**

Another incident at Ardmore today:

ZK-JED one of the Ardmore Flying School Beech Duchess' had an indication of the the gear not locking (ie. no three greens). The aircraft flew around for about 25 mins (with the aerdrome closed) while about 6 fire engines, a fire command truck, 3 police cars, a response controller from Auckland Airport and a couple of ambulances arrived at the airport. The aircraft landed with no incident as two fire trucks chased it down the runway.

The pilots did a supreme job in bringing the aircraft down smoothly and stopping without making the gear collapse. Also good to see Ardmore's emergency response.

The instructor looked a little worse for wear afterwards...

~ZK-KAG~

Posted: **Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:04 pm**

Nice to hear they got it down ok

but 6 fire trucks, a little OTT don't ya think

I bet Unicom felt good when they got in a special controler

Posted: **Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:15 pm**

but 6 fire trucks, a little OTT don't ya think

Yeah, maybe, but more water will put a fire out faster

Posted: **Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:29 pm**

BTW this happens all the time at AR, usually just the micro switch on the gear.

Posted: **Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:52 pm**

Hello All....

Today events were due to a flickering gear light that eventually went out...

Maintenance concluded that is was no more that a blown bulb.

Posted: **Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:16 pm**

a response controller from Auckland Airport

That would have been interesting to listen to on my scanner- someone text me next time (if there is a next time) something like this happens please!

Glad no one was hurt, unlike the recent mishap in Tahiti!

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:04 am**

It happened to the other B76 as well, -EZX, only a couple of weeks ago.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:12 pm**

travnz wrote:
QUOTE(travnz @ Aug 13 2007, 06:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
BTW this happens all the time at AR, usually just the micro switch on the gear.

Hardly all the time... Otherwise there wouldnt have been such a response.

Nevertheless it would have been great training for the student. Oh and it was the microswitch this time

NZFF

Incidents at Ardmore