Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 02 JUN 2000 |
| Type: | GAF Nomad N.22B |
| Operator: | Paraclub Moorsele |
| Registration: | N5190Y |
| C/n / msn: | 26 |
| First flight: | 1976 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Substantial |
| Airplane fate: | Repaired |
| Location: | Leopoldsburg (Belgium)
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| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Parachuting |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Leopoldsburg Airport (EBLE), Belgium |
An uncontained engine fire forced the crew to carry out an emergency landing in a field just outside Leopoldsburg. The engine was separating from its mount and when they landed, just one bolt keep the engine on the aircraft. The aircraft was stored at Kortrijk/Wevelgem airport and was noted in flying condition in 2004.
Sources:
» Airnieuws 409
» Bob Rongé
» Scramble 258
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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.
