ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 247499
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Date: | 05-FEB-2021 |
Time: | c. 12:40 |
Type: | Cessna FR182 Skylane RG (Reims) |
Owner/operator: | Private |
Registration: | D-EHQT |
MSN: | FR18200011 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | between Sefferweich and Staffelstein -
Germany
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Genk-Zwartberg Airfield (GNK/EBZW) |
Destination airport: | Hohenems-Dornbin Airport (HOH/LOIH) |
Investigating agency: | BFU Germany |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The airplane entered an uncontrolled attitude on a visual flight during cruise. The pilot lost control of the attitude in weather conditions that did not allow the flight to be conducted under visual flight rules.
The Austrian pilot died in the crash and the aircraft was destroyed
Conclusions
The aircraft accident, the collision of the aircraft with the ground in fog, was due to spatial disorientation in instrument weather conditions with loss of control of the flight attitude.
Contributing factors:
- inadequate assessment of meteorological conditions for a visual flight
- failure to abort the flight or turn back to the takeoff airfield or alternate airfield when the warm front was reached
- lack of IR training and pilot proficiency for flights without visibility
Sources:
https://www.volksfreund.de/blaulicht/pilot-stirbt-bei-flugzeugabsturz-nahe-sefferweich_aid-56090869 https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/117701/4831391 https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/1667105.html https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=3d18d7 https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/38404_1585163636.jpg (photo)
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | BFU Germany |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 1 year and 2 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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Images:
Photo of D-EHQT courtesy AirHistory.net
Hohenems - Dornbirn (LOIH / HOH)
23 February 2019; (c) Joop de Groot

Photo taken by Vaclav Kudela at Prague Ruzyne on 1.6.2009
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Feb-2021 13:14 |
gerard57 |
Added |
05-Feb-2021 14:58 |
TB |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
05-Feb-2021 14:58 |
Anon |
Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
05-Feb-2021 16:41 |
RobertMB |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Source, Narrative] |
05-Feb-2021 16:41 |
Anon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Source, Narrative] |
05-Feb-2021 16:50 |
RobertMB |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Source, Narrative] |
05-Feb-2021 16:53 |
RobertMB |
Updated [Narrative] |
06-Feb-2021 07:37 |
Anon. |
Updated [Destination airport] |
13-Feb-2021 17:17 |
Vaclav Kudela |
Updated [Photo] |
14-Apr-2022 17:11 |
harro |
Updated [Destination airport, Narrative, Accident report] |
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