Accident Diamond DA40D Diamond Star F-GUVK, Tuesday 3 April 2007
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Date:Tuesday 3 April 2007
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic DA40 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Diamond DA40D Diamond Star
Owner/operator:ESMA Aviation Academy
Registration: F-GUVK
MSN: D4.121
Year of manufacture:2004
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:0
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Category:Accident
Location:Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport, Hérault 34 -   France
Phase: Landing
Nature:Training
Departure airport:Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL/LFMT)
Destination airport:Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL/LFMT)
Investigating agency: BEA
Confidence Rating: Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Narrative:
Hard landing and bounce.

Causes identified:
- erroneous estimation of the position of the the aircraft during the landing,
- insufficient corrections of the trajectory on final,
- obstinacy to continue a landing after a first aborted approach.

Accident investigation:
cover
  
Investigating agency: BEA
Report number: 
Status: Investigation completed
Duration:
Download report: Final report

Sources:

BEA

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

11 October 2004 F-GUVK Diamond Finance Services GmbH 0 Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport, Hérault 34 non
19 July 2008 F-GUVK ESMA Aviation Academy 0 Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport, Hérault 34 sub
10 June 2015 F-GUVK Aéroclub Rossi Levallois Eyguières 0 La Grand'Combe Airfield (LFTN) w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
27-Sep-2008 01:00 ASN archive Added
12-Oct-2022 12:12 harro Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, Accident report]

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