ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 24582
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| Date: | Friday 2 January 2004 |
| Time: | 14:30 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-31T Cheyenne I |
| Owner/operator: | Oracam Ltd |
| Registration: | N480CA |
| MSN: | 31T-8004051 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Dampierre, near Toussous le Noble, Yvelines 78 -
 France
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Kerkyra-I. Kapodistrias Airport (CFU/LGKR) |
| Toussus-le-Noble Airport (TNF/LFPN) | |
| Investigating agency: | BEA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft was destroyed when it crashed during a VOR/DME approach to Runway 07L at Toussus le Noble, impacting the ground in a steep dive about six miles short of the runway. The accident happened in daylight (15:30 Local Time). The aircraft was operating a flight from Tel Aviv, Israel via Kerkira, Greece.
During the descent and approach, the aircraft passed through conditions conducive to a rapid build up of ice resulting in it stalling. A factor in the accident was pilot fatigue; the pilot had been flying the aircraft as a single pilot for 8.5 hours when the accident happened
According to a rough translation from French into English of the official BEA France accident report:
"The Piper Cheyenne, registered N480CA, operates an IFR flight between Tel Aviv Ben Gurion (Israel) and Toussus-le-Noble (France) aerodrome, with a stopover in Corfu (Greece). After filling up with fuel, he took off from Corfu at 10:41 am to Toussus-le-Noble. During the VOR-DME approach to runway 07L of this aerodrome, the pilot aligns with the VOR 066 degrees. It leaves the frequency Approach d'Orly at 15:22 and contacts the tower of Toussous-le-Noble. At 15.22:39, the radar speed of the PA-31T begins to decrease. The controller asks the pilot to indicate when he leaves three thousand feet at the beginning of the descent.
At 15.22:49, the pilot announced that he was leaving three thousand feet. The altitude of the aircraft, stable at three thousand feet QNH, begins to decrease from 15.23:35, while the speed continues to regress. At 15,24:42, the aircraft leaves the alignment of its VOR axis and turns about sixty degrees to the right. At 15.25:01, the controller asked the pilot to indicate his speed; the speed indicated by the radar is then 94 knots. The pilot does not respond. The last radar block is recorded at 15.24:33; the altitude of the aircraft is one thousand five hundred feet and its instantaneous speed is 49 knots. The plane falls in the middle of a forest with an almost vertical trajectory."
US registration N480CA cancelled by the FAA on December 14, 2004 as "Destroyed"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. NTSB Identification: NYC04WA055 at https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20040115X00066&ntsbno=NYC04WA055&akey=1
2. FAA: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?omni=Home-N-Number&nNumberTxt=480CA
3. http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2004/n-ca040102/pdf/n-ca040102.pdf
4. http://www.ascendworldwide.com/download/Cust/WAAS167_Complete.pdf
5. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.baaa-acro.com/2004/archives/crash-of-a-piper-pa-31-cheyenne-in-toussus-le-noble-3-killed/]
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:14 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:16 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:20 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 06-Aug-2017 14:16 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Aug-2017 13:18 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 16-Sep-2017 18:52 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Sep-2017 18:54 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 16-Sep-2017 18:56 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 16-Sep-2017 18:57 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
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