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Date: | Saturday 5 May 2012 |
Time: | 16:50 LT |
Type: | Slingsby T.31B Cadet TX.3 |
Owner/operator: | Private |
Registration: | BGA4926 |
MSN: | 903 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Near Buno-Bonnevaux Airfield - LFFB -
France
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Buno-Bonnevaux Airfield (LFFB) |
Destination airport: | Buno-Bonnevaux Airfield (LFFB) |
Investigating agency: | BEA |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:A Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee glider towing plane (F-GHSH) was returning to the Buno-Bonnevaux Airfield (LFFB) after releasing a glider. The airplane collided with a Slingsby T.31B Cadet TX.3 (BGA4926) that had been launched by a winch four minutes earlier.
Both planes crashed, killing the pilot of the towing plane and both occupants of the glider.
The collision occurred at an altitude of 250 m.
Sources:
http://www.bea.aero/fr/enquetes/2012/2012.semaine.18.pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20120528021218/http://www.liberation.fr/depeches/2012/05/05/trois-morts-dans-un-accident-de-planeur-dans-l-essonne_816648
https://policeetrealites.com/2012/05/05/essonne-trois-morts-dans-une-collision-entre-un-avion-et-un-planeur/
https://www.alvinet.com/similaires/essonne-3-morts-dans-un-accident-de-planeur/12708622
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1307391/
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-May-2012 13:13 |
karyan70 |
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05-May-2012 13:18 |
harro |
Updated [Aircraft type, Phase, Narrative] |
06-May-2012 00:16 |
Alpine Flight |
Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
07-May-2012 04:06 |
harro |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
08-May-2012 03:57 |
Wil |
Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Source] |
09-May-2012 07:51 |
Alpine Flight |
Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Nature] |
11-May-2012 12:50 |
harro |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
12-May-2012 01:02 |
Alpine Flight |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport] |