Accident description
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| Status: | Preliminary - official |
| Date: | 14 AUG 2009 |
| Time: | 19:10 |
| Type: | Beechcraft 99 |
| Operator: | Skydive Portugal |
| Registration: | F-BTME |
| C/n / msn: | U-79 |
| First flight: | 1969 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-20 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Bairro de Almeirim, Évora (Portugal)
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| Phase: | Initial climb (ICL) |
| Nature: | Parachuting |
| Departure airport: | Évora Airport (LPEV), Portugal |
| Évora Airport (LPEV), Portugal |
A Beechcraft 99 turboprop aircraft, registered F-BTME, was destroyed when it crashed in a residential area of Évora, Portugal.
The airplane was used for parachute jumping flights. On the day of the accident the flights started at eleven o’clock in the morning. The duration of each flight was about 15/20 minutes. At 18.47 the aircraft took-off for the last flight, carrying 13 equipped parachutists and a passenger in the right hand seat. The intention was to climb to 13 000’ (AMSL), where parachute jumping would be started. When climbing through 10 500 feet, the pilot informed the passengers that he had lost left engine power and they should leave the aircraft as soon as possible. All 13 parachutists jumped, in sequence, and the pilot, with the passenger, started descending for landing on runway 01 at Évora aerodrome (LPEV), without calling the tower to inform the situation or transmit any distress message.
Eyewitnesses reported that airplane approached the runway at excessive speed. The pilot was unable to stop the aircraft on runway distance available. Reaching the runway end, still with high speed, he decided to reject landing and try a single engine go-around. Power was increased on the remaining right hand engine and the aircraft started climbing slowly and turning to the left. It overflew a nearby residential quarter, with a significant bank, until it hit a roof and crashed on the street, upside down, being engulfed in flames immediately.
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Sources:
» Évora: dois mortos confirmados em queda de avioneta (Diario Noticias, 15-8-2009)
Official accident investigation report
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Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Évora Airport (LPEV) to Évora Airport (LPEV) as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
Distance from Évora Airport (LPEV) to Évora Airport (LPEV) as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
