ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 46165
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| Date: | Sunday 2 November 2008 |
| Time: | 16:33 UTC |
| Type: |  Piper PA-34-220T Seneca III |
| Owner/operator: | Steirische Motorflugunion |
| Registration: | OE-FEE |
| MSN: | 34-8133066 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Zwaring-Pöls -
 Austria
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Salzburg-W. A. Mozart Airport (SZG/LOWS) |
| Graz-Thalerhof Airport (GRZ/LOWG) | |
| Investigating agency: | UUS Austria |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft was on approach to Graz Airport (LOWG) according to instrument flight rules.
During the approach, the aircraft crashed into a wooded area west of the approach baseline of runway 35C. The aircraft was destroyed on impact and the three persons on board were killed.
The accident was probably caused by a deviation from the intended flight path as a result of a spiral dive during flight in instrument weather conditions.
Contributing factors to the accident were probably spatial disorientation after entering clouds at night, an aircraft trimmed in elevator, limited flight experience in instrument flight in instrument weather conditions at night and on the accident pattern, inadequate proficiency in conducting approaches and missed approaches on the accident pattern in instrument weather conditions at night, as well as a misjudgement of proficiency in this regard. It cannot be excluded that the deviation from the intended flight path was facilitated by an impaired condition of the pilot.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
http://steiermark.orf.at/stories/319250/
http://www.kurier.at/nachrichten/253774.php
Images:
Photo taken by Vaclav Kudela at Ostrava on 17.10.2008
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-Nov-2008 12:15 | Bleiente | Added |
| 02-Nov-2008 12:17 | harro | Updated |
| 02-Nov-2008 21:26 | Vaclav Kudela | Updated |
| 03-Nov-2008 00:31 | RobertMB | Updated |
| 06-Jan-2010 21:26 | Alpine Flight | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
| 05-Oct-2013 16:23 | Alpine Flight | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 27-Oct-2021 19:07 | harro | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, Category, Accident report] |
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