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Date: | Saturday 7 August 2010 |
Time: | c. 13:00 LT |
Type: | Schempp-Hirth Discus CS |
Owner/operator: | Segelfluggruppe Winterthur |
Registration: | HB-3162 |
MSN: | 185CS |
Year of manufacture: | 1995 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Near Galmihornhütte at an altitude of app. 2100m, Goms, Oberwallis -
Switzerland
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Münster - LSPU |
Destination airport: | Münster - LSPU |
Investigating agency: | BFU Switz. |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:Mid-air collision of a Discus CS glider with a hang-glider. The pilot of the glider and the pilot of the hang-glider were killed.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | BFU Switz. |
Report number: | |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
https://www.suedostschweiz.ch/newsticker/index.cfm?id=47728 https://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/westschweiz/crash-in-2100-metern-hoehe-flugzeug-kracht-in-gleiter-beide-piloten-tot-id56015.html
http://www.tagesschau.sf.tv/Nachrichten/Archiv/2010/08/07/Schweiz/Zwei-Tote-Segelflugzeug-kollidiert-mit-Gleitschirm-im-Wallis
http://www.bfu.admin.ch/common/pdf/HB-3162.pdf
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Aug-2010 14:10 |
Alpine Flight |
Added |
07-Aug-2010 16:07 |
RobertMB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
08-Aug-2010 02:21 |
Alpine Flight |
Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport] |
11-Aug-2010 15:10 |
harro |
Updated [Source] |