Accident Pilatus PC-21 HB-HZB, Thursday 13 January 2005

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Date:	Thursday 13 January 2005
Time:	16:39 LT
Type:	Pilatus PC-21
Owner/operator:	Pilatus Aircraft
Registration:	HB-HZB
MSN:	P02
Year of manufacture:	2004
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Buochs - LSZC - Switzerland
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Buochs - LSZC
Destination airport:	Buochs - LSZC
Investigating agency:	BFU Switz.
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The 2nd Prototype of the PC-21 crashed during an aerobatic training. It touched the ground with the left wing and burst into flames. The pilot was killed and the aircraft completely destroyed. A man on the ground was also injured because he was hit by pieces of the Pilatus.

Accident investigation: