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| Date: | Sunday 15 January 2006 |
| Time: | 21:30 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-28-181 |
| Owner/operator: | Association L'Aero Club de Vauclusienef |
| Registration: | F-GETZ |
| MSN: | 28-7890085 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Montaigne de Goulet, near Langogne, Languedoc-Roussillon -
 France
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Avignon–Provence Airport, Montfavet (LFMV) |
| Aérodrome en Lozère, Mende Brenoux (LFNB) | |
| Investigating agency: | BEA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (destroyed) 15-01-2006 due to a CFIT (Controlled Flight Into Terrain)into high ground at the 4,670-foot high Montaigne de Goulet (Goulet Mountain), near Langogne, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. Both persons on board (pilot and one passenger) were killed.
Per a rough translation (from French into English) of the official BEA accident report:
"Accident January 15, 2006 at Chasserades: Piper PA-28-181 registered F-GETZ operated by the flying club Vauclusienef. On Sunday 15 January 2006, the pilot projects a VFR flight to Mende where he is waited with his passenger for lunch. He plans to return the same evening.
It takes off at 9:15 from the Aerodrome at Avignon where it is based. After being mounted at a height of 7,700 feet on the edge of the Cevennes, the aircraft performs two successive U-turns and descends towards Mende airfield. Then he moves away to the east, along the mountain Goulet where it crashed an altitude of 4,185 feet"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2006/f-tz060115/pdf/f-tz060115.pdf
2. http://web.archive.org/web/20120928112413/http://www.immat.aviation-civile.gouv.fr:80/immat/servlet/aeronef_liste.html;jsessionid=2BD123E3B54B28D2E7A214E00ECA15A2
3. https://peakery.com:443/montagne-du-goulet-france/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 01-Sep-2016 20:49 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 01-Sep-2016 20:54 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Operator, Source, ] |
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