Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 19 NOV 1984 |
| Type: | Embraer 110P1 Bandeirante |
| Operator: | Euroair |
| Registration: | G-HGGS |
| C/n / msn: | 110294 |
| First flight: | 1980 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | SE of Inverness (United Kingdom)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Inverness Airport (INV/EGPE), United Kingdom |
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The Euroair flight was cleared for a runway 24 departure, followed by a left turn onto track and continue direct to Edinburgh at FL95.
The aircraft took off at 20:55 returned over the field to follow the 175deg. radial of the Inverness VOR and continued below the cloud base. The aircraft soon crashed into a hill at 1600 feet. Minimum altitude is 4800 feet.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Unknown.
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
