Loss of control Accident Robin DR.400/180 F-GFXV, Saturday 5 July 2025
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Date:Saturday 5 July 2025
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic DR40 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Robin DR.400/180
Owner/operator:Aeroclub d'Alençon
Registration: F-GFXV
MSN: 1777
Year of manufacture:1987
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Category:Accident
Location:Cerisé (Orne) -   France
Phase: Approach
Nature:Private
Departure airport:Le Mans-Arnage Airport (LME/LFRM)
Destination airport:Alencon-Valframbert Airfield (LFOF)
Investigating agency: BEA
Confidence Rating: Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities
Narrative:
A Robin DR.400 crashed 1 km east of the Alençon-Valframbert Airfield (LFOF). There was only one person onboard, a 74-year-old man: the pilot who perished in the accident.

On final for runway 25L at Alençon, the aircraft turned left in descent and contol was lost, the pilot lost control. The aircraft collided with vegetation, the ground and then a building.

Accident investigation:
  
Investigating agency: BEA
Report number: BEA2025-0285
Status: Preliminary report
Report: Preliminary report

Sources:

https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/faits-divers/crash/un-aeronef-secrase-sur-une-salle-des-fetes-inoccupee-dans-lorne-le-pilote-decede-cb79aed0-59b3-11f0-8b05-6b82fd3c3480
https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/normandie/orne/un-pilote-decede-dans-le-crash-d-un-avion-de-tourisme-sur-une-salle-des-fetes-a-cerise-dans-l-orne-3183642.html
https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/rendez-vous/un-pilote-de-74-ans-est-mort-dans-le-crash-de-son-avion-de-tourisme-sur-la-salle-des-fetes-de-cerise-pres-d-alencon-9709229

Location

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
05-Jul-2025 17:47 MatteoD Added
05-Jul-2025 17:50 ASN Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative, ]
05-Jul-2025 17:58 ASN Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Phase, Source, ]
05-Jul-2025 18:01 ASN Updated [Location, Narrative, Category, ]
06-Jul-2025 10:51 Frédéric Goudon Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
11-Jul-2025 14:44 ASN Updated [Narrative, Accident report, ]
11-Jul-2025 14:44 ASN Updated

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