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| Date: | Friday 30 January 2015 |
| Time: | 11:00 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage JetPROP DLX |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N246PR |
| MSN: | 4636063/34 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1996 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Bernex -
 Switzerland
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA) |
| Genk-Zwartberg Airfield (EBZW) | |
| Investigating agency: | STSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A Piper Jetprop DLX conversion of a PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage crashed near the town of Bernex, Switzerland. The pilot, who was sole onboard, was killed.
The aircraft was being flown to Genk, Belgium for an annual inspection. The aircraft reached FL68 in the climb after departure from Geneva and was turning left following ATC instructions when the pilot lost control. The aircraft entered a steep descent from which it did not recover.
Causes
The accident was caused by a loss of control that led the aircraft to unusual flight attitudes, which the pilot did not manage to restore which led to the crash.
The insufficient skills of the pilot confronted with a high performance aircraft, whose systems are complex, contributed to the occurrence of the of the accident.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
http://www.sust.admin.ch/pdfs/AV-berichte/N246PR.pdf
https://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/petit-avion-crashe-bernex/story/18689531
http://www.rts.ch/info/regions/geneve/6502540-un-avion-de-tourisme-s-ecrase-pres-de-bernex.html
http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/geneve/story/Un-mort-dans-le-crash-d-un-avion-de-tourisme--la-video-16073071
Video: http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/geneve/story/Un-lecteur-a-filme-le-crash-du-Piper-21445924
Images:
Capture from amateur movie
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Jan-2015 12:24 | Iceman 29 | Added |
| 30-Jan-2015 12:46 | Alpine Flight | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Other fatalities, Destination airport, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 30-Jan-2015 13:23 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Destination airport, Source, ] |
| 30-Jan-2015 13:29 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Photo, ] |
| 30-Jan-2015 13:50 | Jetpropdlx | Updated [Registration, ] |
| 30-Jan-2015 13:51 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Narrative, ] |
| 30-Jan-2015 18:58 | edgarjung | Updated [Aircraft type, ] |
| 30-Jan-2015 18:58 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, ] |
| 30-Jan-2015 19:12 | edgarjung | Updated [Phase, Nature, ] |
| 30-Jan-2015 20:30 | harro | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, ] |
| 03-Feb-2015 15:48 | harro | Updated [Registration, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 04-Feb-2015 13:46 | Alpine Flight | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, ] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:28 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency, ] |
| 17-May-2021 16:46 | harro | Updated [Narrative, Accident report, ] |
| 17-May-2021 17:14 | harro | Updated [Phase, Narrative, ] |
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