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.

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/

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-May-2012 13:13	karyan70	Added
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]