ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 153039
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| Date: | Thursday 2 April 1987 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  General Dynamics F-111C Aardvark |
| Owner/operator: | 6 Sqn RAAF |
| Registration: | A8-128 |
| MSN: | D1-4 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Tenterfield, NSW -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAAF East Sale, Victoria |
| RAAF Amberley, Queensland | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Delivered to RAAF 1/6/73. Crashed, 2/4/87 near Tenterfield, NSW during night simulated attack.
The most probable cause of the accident was that the crew lost situational awareness with respect to altitude during a critical flight manoeuvre. Possible contributory causes of their loss of situational awareness included:
a. misreading the altimeter;
b. distraction of the crew from the primary task;
c. lack of any external visual cues;
d. G-loss of consciousness (G-LOC);
e. pilot psychological profile (considerable personal life stressors – potential for decreases in performance/vigilance due to subjective fatigue); and/or
f. visual impairment or partial incapacitation of the pilot (due pre-existing chronic
heart condition revealed at autopsy).
Both crew - Flt Lt Mark Fallon (pilot) and Flg Off William Pike (WSO) - were killed.
Sources:
F-111.net was the first F-111 website & primary source of everything 111 related since 1998
http://web.archive.org/web/20170921070650/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/Aircraft_by_Type/F_111/F-111.htm
http://adf-serials.com.au/3a8.shtml
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Feb-2013 18:12 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 04-Apr-2013 08:12 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 17-Feb-2016 14:42 | Garth McDonald | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport] |
| 18-Feb-2016 04:55 | Garth McDonald | Updated [Narrative] |
| 09-Apr-2016 12:18 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 20-Jan-2021 18:35 | Anon. | Updated [Source] |
| 29-Apr-2021 10:51 | Adam | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
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