OH-AYN AA5-0477 1974 Owner: Martti Hirvonen.
Former register: N7177L.

 



OH-AYN and OH-AYS at the new Pyhäselkä airfield from left to right
Lauri Turpeinen and Reijo Hirvonen

 



The opening of Pyhäselkä airfield in 1993

 



Almoust identical AYN and AYS

 


AYN is flying from Joensuu airport (EFJO) to pyhäselkä airport. There was
90 degrees crosswind and the pilot desides to land runway 18. On final the
plane is a bit too high and speed is alsi to fast. The pilot manages to get the
plane down about 200 meters after the treshold but desides to pull up and
applies full trotle. He soon realises that the plane won't climb over the
obstacles at the end of the runway so he aborts the pull attempt. The plane
continues to go out at end of the runway and stops with nose down. The two
occupants escapes witout injuries but the nose of the plane suffer major
damages. The Pilot was 52 years old and had 245h. flight time.
It's now beeb proved again that when you try to land an AA5 on short 600m
runway you can't change your mind many times.

 



The cocpit after the accident.

 

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