Date:	Friday 5 February 2021
Time:	c. 12:40
Type:	Cessna FR182 Skylane RG (Reims)
Owner/operator:	private
Registration:	D-EHQT
MSN:	FR18200011
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	between Sefferweich and Staffelstein, N of Bitburg -   Germany
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Genk-Zwartberg Airfield (GNK/EBZW)
Destination airport:	Hohenems-Dornbin Airport (HOH/LOIH)
Investigating agency:	BFU
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The airplane entered an uncontrolled attitude on a visual flight during cruise. The pilot (27y) lost control of the attitude in weather conditions that did not allow the flight to be conducted under visual flight rules.
The Austrian pilot died in the crash and the aircraft was destroyed

Conclusions
The aircraft accident, the collision of the aircraft with the ground in fog, was due to spatial disorientation in instrument weather conditions with loss of control of the flight attitude.
Contributing factors:
- inadequate assessment of meteorological conditions for a visual flight
- failure to abort the flight or turn back to the takeoff airfield or alternate airfield when the warm front was reached
- lack of IR training and pilot proficiency for flights without visibility

https://www.volksfreund.de/blaulicht/pilot-stirbt-bei-flugzeugabsturz-nahe-sefferweich_aid-56090869
https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/117701/4831391
https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/1667105.html
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=3d18d7

https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/38404_1585163636.jpg (photo)
BFU 21-0041-3X
Files of German reg office LBA

Built at Reims 1978, rgd to ÖFAG Salzburg 30AUG78, later to Dr.K.Heidenthaler, Wien airport, cancelled 19SEP93. To Coop Aviation, Ecuvillens as HB-CHH 23SEP83. To Air Fribourg Services SA, Ecuvillens in 1990. Cancelled 27JAN293. To Gerhard Regel, Dahlemer Binz as D-EHQT on 05MAR93. TT3347h. To the operator prior to 2009, based at Hohenems. Last annual on 04FEB21. Fatally crashed on next day. Cancelled 22FEB21.

Photo taken by Vaclav Kudela at Prague Ruzyne on 1.6.2009

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Feb-2021 13:14	gerard57	Added
05-Feb-2021 14:58	TB	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, ]
05-Feb-2021 14:58	Anon	Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
05-Feb-2021 16:41	RobertMB	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Source, Narrative, ]
05-Feb-2021 16:41	Anon	Updated [Time, Cn, Source, Narrative, ]
05-Feb-2021 16:50	RobertMB	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Source, Narrative, ]
05-Feb-2021 16:53	RobertMB	Updated [Narrative, ]
06-Feb-2021 07:37	Anon.	Updated [Destination airport, ]
13-Feb-2021 17:17	Vaclav Kudela	Updated [Photo, ]
14-Apr-2022 17:11	harro	Updated [Destination airport, Narrative, Accident report, ]
27-Aug-2025 07:49	Gerhardt	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
27-Aug-2025 07:50	ASN	Updated [Operator, ]