ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 145452
Last updated: 23 May 2013
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| Date: | 05-MAY-2012 |
| Time: | 16:50 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee C |
| Operator: | Association Aéronautique du Val d'Essonne - AAVE |
| Registration: | F-GHSH |
| C/n / msn: | 25-7656044 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Near Buno-Bonnevaux Airfield - LFFB -
 France
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | LFFB |
| LFFB |
A Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee glider towing plane (F-GHSH) was returning to the Buno-Bonnevaux Airfield (LFFB) after releasing a glider. The airplane collided with a Slingsby T.31B Cadet TX.3 (BGA4926) that had been launched by a winch four minutes earlier.
Both planes crashed, killing the pilot of the towing plane and both occupants of the glider.
The collision occurred at an altitude of 250 m.
Sources:
http://www.bea.aero/fr/enquetes/2012/2012.semaine.18.pdf
http://www.liberation.fr/depeches/2012/05/05/trois-morts-dans-un-accident-de-planeur-dans-l-essonne_816648
http://www.alvinet.com/actualite/articles/essonne-3-morts-dans-un-accident-de-planeur-12708622.html
http://policeetrealites.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/essonne-trois-morts-dans-une-collision-entre-un-avion-et-un-planeur/
http://www.leparisien.fr/buno-bonnevaux-91720/emotion-apres-la-collision-mortelle-a-buno-bonnevaux-07-05-2012-1988696.php
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-May-2012 13:13 | karyan70 | Added |
| 05-May-2012 13:18 | harro | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Phase, Narrative] |
| 06-May-2012 00:18 | FLYINGBROTHER1 | Updated [Time, Registration, Location, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-May-2012 04:05 | harro | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 07-May-2012 11:08 | Dmitriy | Updated [Aircraft type, Source] |
| 11-May-2012 12:23 | 193.48.90.62 | Updated [Registration] |
| 11-May-2012 12:50 | harro | Updated [Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 12-May-2012 00:58 | FLYINGBROTHER1 | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
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