Aircraft Details
The aircraft involved is a Piper PA-31-350, registered G-BMBC. The occurrence took place on 14 June 2000 at 0950 UTC.
Location
The event occurred in the Mersey Estuary, west of the Runway 09 threshold at Liverpool Airport.
Bulletin Correction
The AAIB published a corrigendum to its Bulletin 1/2001. The correction pertains to the section 'Previous flights' on page 6. Specifically, the penultimate line of the first paragraph was amended. The words 'on this occasion their aircraft was in for maintenance and thus……' were deleted. After the word 'Blackpool', the text ' because it was a DHSS requirement for the aircraft to be operated by the holder of an appropriate Air Operator’s Certificate' was added. The original file reference was also amended to EW/C2000/6/7.
The investigation was conducted by the AAIB Field Investigation team.