On August 6, 2022, an ULM (ultra light motorized) crashed at the end of the runway in Cambaie (Saint-Paul). A 71-year-old instructor pilot was killed and a young 18-year-old pilot was seriously injured. According to information from the Journal de l’Île this Sunday, June 2, 2024, citing a report from the Accident Investigation Office (BEA), the accident was due to a bad maneuver (Photo: www.imazpress.com)
Two years after the accident, the Accident Investigation Bureau (BEA) issued its safety investigation report.
In view of the elements of the file, the testimonies and the analysis of the aircraft, the BEA concludes that there was a loss of control, possibly aggravated by “the incomplete fixation of the instructor’s seat”, indicates the JIR.
The BEA considers that “the tailwind component may have encouraged the pilot to tighten the turns.”
The investigation “did not make it possible to explain the reasons which led the instructor not to interrupt the exercise earlier.” Which leads the BEA to suggest that “the lack of locking of the seat back may have prevented the instructor from effectively taking over the controls or may have interfered with the pilot’s actions.”
The report highlights that the instructor’s partial wearing of the safety harness, as well as the incomplete fixing of the seat, could have aggravated the consequences of the accident.
– One dead and one injured –
While they were carrying out an engine failure simulation exercise during landing on the Cambaie platform, an instructor and his student pilot crashed with their microlight on the pebble beach.
The plane crashed while preparing to land. A 70-year-old man died. The 18-year-old was seriously injured.
The 70-year-old pilot who was killed in the crash was seasoned and had hundreds of flying hours under his belt. I
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– Several deaths in recent years –
This is the second drama of its kind in Reunion this year. A class 6 two-seater ULM helicopter crashed in the heights of Sans Souci (Saint-Paul) on August 5. The pilot died.
On August 6, 2022 in Cambaie, another accident occurred. A microlight crashed, seriously injuring a young 18-year-old pilot and causing the death of the 71-year-old instructor pilot.
In 2021, on Sunday October 10, an ultralight aircraft hit a cliff at Maïdo. Two people had died.
On October 16, 2019, a CESSNA passenger plane crashed in the volcano area. Four people were on board the aircraft. Two of them, two women in their fifties, were killed.
Also read – Ten fatal air crashes in sixteen years in Reunion
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