Incident Grob G 115B HB-UGA, Thursday 18 March 2010
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Date:Thursday 18 March 2010
Time:19:00 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic G115 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Grob G 115B
Owner/operator:Flugsportgruppe Zürcher-Oberland
Registration: HB-UGA
MSN: 8011
Year of manufacture:1987
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:0
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Location:Speck-Fehraltorf Airfield (LSZK) -   Switzerland
Phase: Landing
Nature:Private
Departure airport:Speck-Fehraltorf (LSZK)
Destination airport:Speck-Fehraltorf (LSZK)
Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative:
The pilot had aborted an initial landing attempt. On his second attempt a few minutes later the plane landed but overshot the grass runway for unknown reasons. The plane eventually stopped in a field. The pilot (54) and his passenger (16) escaped unhurt.
Witnesses report the plane's pitot was still covered after the crash landing.

Sources:

[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.kapo.zh.ch/internet/ds/kapo/de/news/allgemein/Mittlg_2010/Maerz_2010M/1903101b.ContentList.0001.Document.JPG] (photo of accident, note pitot cover on left wing not removed)
http://www.kapo.zh.ch/internet/sicherheitsdirektion/kapo/de/home.html
http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/medien/kleinflugzeug_acker_1.5250530.html

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Grob-G-115B/1164660/L (photo)

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

27 July 2005 HB-UGA Speck-Fehraltorf Flugplatz (LSZK) unk

Location

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
20-Mar-2010 07:00 flyflyfly Added
20-Mar-2010 10:22 flyflyfly Updated [Registration, Cn, ]
20-Mar-2010 10:46 RobertMB Updated [Source, ]
23-Mar-2010 23:05 flyflyfly Updated [Registration, Cn, Source, Narrative, ]
05-Dec-2010 06:12 Alpine Flight Updated [Aircraft type, ]
23-Sep-2011 02:38 Uli Elch Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]

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