ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 311223
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| Date: | Friday 21 April 2023 |
| Time: | c. 19:30 |
| Type: |  Cessna 150G |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | C-FWGF |
| MSN: | 15067098 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1967 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Saint-Remi, Montérégie, QC -
 Canada
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | |
| Investigating agency: | TSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Toward the end of the afternoon on 21 April 2023, the student pilot and owner of the Cessna 150G aircraft and a friend arrived at the field of a private farm in Saint-Urbain-Premier, Quebec, where the aircraft had been parked. At
17:53, the student pilot sent a text message to his flight instructor to inform him that he was going to fly. The instructor, who was in Saint-Lazare, Quebec, authorized the solo flight.
The aircraft took off at approximately 18:30 for a local flight, with the student pilot and his friend on board. Weather conditions were suitable for a day visual flight rules (VFR) flight, and winds were from the north-northwest at about 14 knots. At approximately 19:20, the aircraft flew at low altitude3 over a residential area west of Saint-Rémi, Quebec, where about 15 people were attending an outdoor gathering on a private property. One of the individuals recognized the
aircraft and called the student pilot at 19:21 using a mobile application that allowed video calls, asking him to put on a "show." The conversation lasted 21 seconds, and shortly afterwards, the aircraft approached the gathering from the north.
The aircraft began to fly in a steep nose-up attitude and then, after executing a manoeuvre that the investigation was unable to identify, ended up in a vertical descent. The aircraft then severed power lines before crashing onto the roof of an automobile parked in the driveway of a house approximately 100 feet from the gathering.
A fire broke out. Several people rushed over to help out the student pilot and passenger. Both were seriously injured and taken to hospital by ambulance. The fire spread to the house and was brought under control by firefighters once they arrived at the scene. No one on the ground was injured. The aircraft was destroyed.
According to information gathered during the investigation and the examination of the accident site, the aircraft was in a near-vertical descent after conducting a low-speed manoeuvre, a situation that corresponds to a stall.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.iheartradio.ca/virginradio/montreal/news/small-plane-crashes-into-2-homes-south-of-montreal-2-men-in-critical-condition-1.19563052
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/small-plane-crashes-into-2-homes-south-of-montreal-2-men-in-critical-condition-1.6366525
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/plane-crash-south-of-montreal-injures-2-after-hitting-2-homes
TSB
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2023/04/21/un-petit-appareil-secrase-a-saint-remi-2-blesses-1
https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/CCARCS-RIACC/ADet.aspx?id=5412&rfr=RchSimp.aspx
https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/1/77879_1223938791.jpg (photo)
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-Apr-2023 03:14 | Geno | Added |
| 09-May-2023 19:37 | harro | Updated |
| 01-Nov-2023 17:23 | harro | Updated |
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