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| Date: | Sunday 11 August 2024 |
| Time: | 08:50 |
| Type: |  Aerospool WT-9 Dynamic |
| Owner/operator: | Aéroclub de Haguenau |
| Registration: | 04FO |
| MSN: | DY-443/2012 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2012 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Eschbach, Bas-Rhin, Grand Est -
 France
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Haguenau Airfield (LFSH) |
| Haguenau Airfield (LFSH) | |
| Investigating agency: | BEA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
An Aerospool WT-9 Dynamic crashed under unknown circumstances in a field near Eschbach, Bas-Rhin, Grand Est.
Both occupants perished and the ultralight received substantial damage.
They are the president of Aéroclub de Haguenau, who is also a colonel in the air and space gendarmerie, and another member of the club, an experienced licensed pilot.
Contributing Factors
A factor that may have contributed to a roll upset during a stall exercise and the development of a spin:
- The absence of stall-strips on the ultralight aircraft (ULM). These aerodynamic devices, designed to improve the stall behavior of the ULM, help reduce the risk of roll upset and, consequently, the entry into a spin. This risk increases if the roll onset is not countered early enough or if the pilot performs inadequate actions, such as maintaining a nose-up input or using aileron inputs that induce differential drag, which can favor a spin entry.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/grand-est/bas-rhin/bas-rhin-un-avion-de-tourisme-s-ecrase-dans-un-champ-deux-morts-3016736.html
https://www.lalsace.fr/faits-divers-justice/2024/08/11/eschbach-deux-morts-dans-le-crash-d-un-avion-de-tourisme
https://bea.aero/les-enquetes/evenements-notifies/detail/accident-survenu-a-lulm-multiaxes-aerospool-wt9-identifie-04fo-le-11-08-2024-a-eschbach-67/
https://ffplum.fr/medias/lettres-d-informations/1464-disparition-du-colonel-didier-limet
https://aeroclub-haguenau.com/flotte
https://www.flickr.com/photos/aerofossile2012/46023963241/in/photostream/lightbox/ (photo)
Location
Images:
photo: BEA France
Media:
??France - Eschbach (Bas-Rhin).
— PLANES OF LEGEND ✈️ (@PlanesOfLegend) August 11, 2024
Un Aerospool WT-9 ( F-JTXF) s'écrase dans un champ, deux morts.
ASN: https://t.co/b7quZlgyod
Presse: https://t.co/IvfRYzhlz0
?(1) Romain Roux (2) Thomas Toussaint pic.twitter.com/U0Xvrhfjvb
??Disparition du colonel Didier Limet de la Gendarmerie de l'Air et de l’Espace et de son passager lors d'un vol d'instruction ce dimanche 11 août 2024.
— PLANES OF LEGEND ✈️ (@PlanesOfLegend) August 13, 2024
ASN: https://t.co/utEjiHl11N
FFPLUM: https://t.co/SI4Z9nDKq7 pic.twitter.com/rumOUVlU4Z
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Aug-2024 10:37 | gerard57 | Added |
| 11-Aug-2024 11:05 | DX | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Plane category, ] |
| 11-Aug-2024 11:06 | ASN | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Narrative, ] |
| 11-Aug-2024 15:10 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Embed code, ] |
| 11-Aug-2024 15:11 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Embed code, ] |
| 11-Aug-2024 15:16 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Narrative, Category, ] |
| 11-Aug-2024 15:51 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Registration, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, Category, ] |
| 12-Aug-2024 06:45 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Category, ] |
| 12-Aug-2024 14:56 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Photo, ] |
| 13-Aug-2024 10:18 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
| 13-Aug-2024 10:24 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Embed code, ] |
| 13-Aug-2024 10:26 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Embed code, ] |
| 17-Aug-2024 09:59 | RobertMB | Updated [Nature, Source, ] |
| 22-Aug-2025 16:33 | ASN | Updated [Registration, Phase, Narrative, Accident report, Photo, ] |
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