Date:	Tuesday 8 December 2020
Time:	14:09
Type:	Guimbal Cabri G2
Owner/operator:	Heli Transair European Air Services GmbH, Egelsbach
Registration:	D-HTAT
MSN:	1048
Year of manufacture:	2013
Engine model:	Lycoming O-360-J2A
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Speyer Airfield (EDRY) -   Germany
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Speyer Airfield (EDRY)
Destination airport:	Egelsbach
Investigating agency:	BFU
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
A student pilot(63y) started on a solo flight from Speyer Airfield (EDRY), Germany. At a height of 50-100 meters, there was a loss of engine power. The helicopter touched dow hard and rolled over about 15-20 meters from the runway in the grass.
The trainee pilot was uninjured.

Conclusions:
The accident, the loss of control of the helicopter in the initial climb to impact, was due to faulty coordination between engine power demand and control inputs with the pedals for torque compensation about the vertical axis.
A contributing factor was probably the selected flight profile, deviating from the flight manual, with simultaneous excessive demands of the student pilot in solo flight.

https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/speyer_artikel,-hubschrauber-st%C3%BCrzt-ab-_arid,5143327.html
https://pressemeier.de/2020/12/08/hubschrauberabsturz-auf-dem-flugplatz-in-speyer/
https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/117688/4785700

https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/50663_1530640348.jpg (photo)
BFU 20-1201-3X
Files of reg office LBA

Built in 2013. Permit to fly as D-HTAT issued 30APR13. Rgd to operator 16MAY13. Last annual 07MAY20.

Photo: Polizeidirektion Ludwigshafen

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
09-Dec-2020 08:26	DSC	Added
09-Dec-2020 08:28	harro	Updated [Damage, Narrative, Photo, ]
09-Dec-2020 09:08	RobertMB	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
19-Dec-2021 18:04	harro	Updated [Narrative, Accident report, ]
26-Aug-2025 10:57	Gerhardt	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ]