ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 224103
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| Date: | Thursday 18 April 2019 |
| Time: | c. 09:23 |
| Type: |  Socata TB20 Trinidad |
| Owner/operator: | DGAC |
| Registration: | F-GDNF |
| MSN: | 344 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Melville Hall Valley, Saint Andrew -
 Dominica
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Fort-de-France-Aimé Césaire International Airport (FDF/TFFF) |
| Pointe-à-Pitre-Le Raizet Airport (PTP/TFFR) | |
| Investigating agency: | BEA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The French aircraft impacted rugged wooded terrain about 4.5 miles away from Douglas–Charles Airport (TDPD), in Melville Hall Valley. The airplane was destroyed and the sole pilot on board received unknown injures.
The aircraft was owned by the Direction de la sécurité de l'aviation civile Antilles-Guyane.
Contributing factors
Factors that may have contributed to placing the pilot in a situation where he was going to lose his visual references and involuntarily move close to the terrain:
- The decision to continue the flight in conditions unfavourable to visual flight.
- The will to carry out a long planned mission which had already been postponed several times.
May have contributed to compromise the pilot's possibilities to get out of this critical situation :
- The absence of a radio message from the pilot to inform the controllers of his precise intentions or to ask them for assistance when he has found in a difficult situation
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.rci.fm/infos/faits-divers/un-petit-avion-secrase-proximite-de-laeroport-de-la-dominique
https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/accidents-tragedy/update-plane-crash-in-melville-hall-area/
http://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/accidents-tragedy/breaking-news-plane-crash-at-melville-hall/
https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/pilot-dies-in-plane-crash-in-dominica/
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/body-of-pilot-recovered-after-plane-crash_162671?profile=1373
https://www.guadeloupe.franceantilles.fr/actualite/faits-divers/crash-d-un-avion-de-l-aviation-civile-le-pilote-est-decede-533787.php
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Location
Media:
Dominica island - Body of the french pilot recovered dead after his Socata TB20 plane crash. Plane is owned by "La Direction de la sécurité de l'aviation civile Antilles-Guyane".
— PLANES OF LEGEND (@PlanesOfLegend) 21 avril 2019
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Apr-2019 14:29 | Geno | Added |
| 18-Apr-2019 16:53 | Captain Adam | Updated [Aircraft type, Total occupants, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Apr-2019 18:22 | Anon. | Updated [Date] |
| 19-Apr-2019 00:49 | Geno | Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Source] |
| 19-Apr-2019 17:02 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Source] |
| 19-Apr-2019 17:52 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 19-Apr-2019 17:53 | harro | Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Source, Damage] |
| 19-Apr-2019 17:54 | harro | Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
| 21-Apr-2019 09:32 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Embed code] |
| 15-May-2019 08:31 | Anon. | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Embed code] |
| 11-Nov-2020 09:49 | harro | Updated [Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 11-Nov-2020 09:50 | harro | Updated [Accident report] |
| 30-Apr-2022 04:15 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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