ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 270875
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| Date: | Sunday 25 May 2008 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Piper PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N9245D |
| MSN: | 4622157 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1994 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Léguillac-de-Cercles -
 France
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | LFBZ |
| LFPK | |
| Investigating agency: | BEA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft took off on runway 09 at Biarritz at 12:01 to Coulommiers under a mixed IFR / VFR flight plan. At 12:20, the aircraft was stable at flight level 120 on the standard ENSAC 3T departure towards the Limoges VOR. The pilot contacted the Aquitaine Approach control organization which asked him to proceed to NORON and then Limoges. At 12:48, the pilot contacted again Aquitaine Approach for a radio test. The controller replied that he was receiving him correctly. The pilot checked in five minutes later, the controller observed that the aircraft had left its course in descent with an increasing vertical speed. He tried to contact the pilot four times but did not get a response. A few moments later, radar contact was lost.
The controller triggered a DETRESFA alert phase. Inhabitants of the Léguillac-de-Cercles area saw the aircraft emerge from the clouds, fall in a flat spin, followed by debris and crash flat in a field.
Causes of the accident
The accident was caused by the pilot's decision to undertake the flight in known icing conditions. The degradation of aircraft performance by icing and/or spatial disorientation that the pilot may have experienced while operating in a turbulent environment likely led to the loss of control and subsequent in-flight breakup of the aircraft.
Contributing to the accident were:
the pilot's overconfidence in his decision to undertake this flight, caused by the abundance of automatic controls ;
the insufficient preparation of the flight.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.bea.aero/en/investigation-reports/notified-events/detail/perte-de-controle-rupture-en-vol-collision-avec-le-sol/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2021 19:28 | harro | Added |
| 17-Dec-2021 19:29 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 12-Jan-2022 08:17 | harro | Updated [Location] |
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