Accident Cessna P210N Pressurized Centurion N240PW,
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Date:Saturday 9 February 2013
Time:08:40
Type:Silhouette image of generic P210 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Cessna P210N Pressurized Centurion
Owner/operator:White Mountain Inc
Registration: N240PW
MSN: P21000600
Year of manufacture:1981
Fatalities:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Category:Accident
Location:Bruxelles-Sud Charleroi Airport (CRL/EBCI) -   Belgium
Phase: Take off
Nature:Private
Departure airport:Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL/EBCI)
Destination airport:Lyon
Investigating agency: AAIU Belgium
Confidence Rating: Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Narrative:
A Cessna P210N Pressurized Centurion crashed on takeoff from Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL/EBCI), Belgium.
As the airplane was climbing out after lift-off, witnesses saw it deviating to the left of the runway axis, at low speed in an unusual nose up attitude. The airplane began a climbing left turn where it seemed to circle back toward the airport. A few seconds later, the pilot declared the control tower “I have a problem, I’m trying to land”. The airplane was given priority and continued to climb slowly, making a short left hand circuit at low speed. Around one minute after the lift-off, the airplane flew back to the airport unstable at low speed. After having turned left when crossing the runway the pilot lowered the landing gear when flying parallel on the right side of the runway 25.
Shortly after, the airplane entered in a left hand spin and collided with the ground almost vertically, killing the 5 occupants.

Cause(s):
The pilot's failure to achieve the required best-angle-of-climb airspeed after lift-off resulting in a nose up flight at low speed, close to the stall speed. The airplane flew unstable on the back side of the power curve having as consequence a loss of control during an attempt to land and subsequent collision with terrain.

The aircraft is a P210N Soloy Silver Eagle (Allison Turbine) conversion.

METAR EBCI 090850Z 21003KT 1800 BR FEW002 M03/M04 Q1019 RMK R25/090071 TEMPO 0600 FZFG BKN002=

Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: AAIU Belgium
Report number: 
Status: Investigation completed
Duration:
Download report: Final report

Sources:

https://www.newsru.com/world/09feb2013/cessna.html
http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/binnenland/130209_Charleroi_vliegcrash
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/957/Binnenland/article/detail/1576723/2013/02/09/Vijf-mensen-omgekomen-bij-vliegtuigcrash-in-Charleroi.dhtml
http://www.dhnet.be/actu/faits/crash-d-un-avion-a-charleroi-tous-les-avions-decollent-et-atterrissent-a-nouveau-normalement-51b74165e4b0de6db97724cd
https://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20130211X25028&key=1
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N240PW.html
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1215589/

http://www.mobilit.belgium.be/nl/binaries/2013-04_tcm466-245747.pdf

Media:

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
09-Feb-2013 02:30 sundevil Added
09-Feb-2013 02:31 harro Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Narrative]
09-Feb-2013 03:16 Anon. Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants]
09-Feb-2013 04:28 Hans Gruber Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Embed code]
09-Feb-2013 05:33 Mr. Propwash Updated [Narrative]
09-Feb-2013 06:02 Mr. Propwash Updated [Narrative]
09-Feb-2013 06:16 harro Updated [Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport]
09-Feb-2013 06:45 harro Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative]
09-Apr-2014 19:38 Geno Updated [Operator, Location, Source]
21-May-2014 07:33 Jan Olieslagers Updated [Source]
21-Dec-2016 19:28 ASN Update Bot Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency]
12-Sep-2020 19:29 harro Updated [Source, Narrative, Accident report, ]
26-Jun-2022 00:35 Ron Averes Updated [Location]

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