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Home <<Accident: COMCO-IKARUS, C42 FB Microlight, EI-ETU Carrickbrack Airfield, Letterkenny Co. Donegal, 27 December 2012: Report 2013-006
SYNOPSIS
Following a longer than expected take-off run over wet/soft grassland, the aircraft became airborne and had insufficient height to clear a line of trees at the airfield boundary hedgerow. The right-hand wing-tip struck a holly tree and the aircraft subsequently impacted heavily into the adjacent field. Both occupants escaped without injury, but the aircraft was substantially damaged. There was no fire.
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