Accident Let L-410UVP YV-956C,

ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 323757

Date:	Thursday 22 April 1999
Time:	15:30
Type:	Let L-410UVP
Owner/operator:	Hélica - Helicópteros del Caribe
Registration:	YV-956C
MSN:	851515
Year of manufacture:	1985
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Clécy - France
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Ferry/positioning
Departure airport:	Linköping-Saab Airport (LPI/ESSL)
Destination airport:	Porto-Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO/LPPR)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The Let was on a ferry flight from Sweden to Venezuela. It departed Linköping in Sweden, bound for Porto in Portugal. Over France at FL55 the no. 2 engine quit, followed by the no. 1 engine. A forced landing was carried out in a field. After 400 m the airplane collided with some trees.
It appeared that the aircraft was equipped with 13 metal cans containing fuel secured in the cabin. Transfer to the structural tanks was done using an electrical pump. The crew was transferring 170 L of fuel per hour to the wing tanks, while the hourly consumption was around 360 L. from Sweden to Portugal when it crashed near Caen, probably due to fuel exhaustion. The Let had been fitted with an uncertified additional fuel tank .

The accident was due to incomplete flight preparation, faulty fuel management and insufficient knowledge of the aircrafts performance.

Sources:

CAPC 28
ICAO Adrep
Jan Jurecka
Scramble 243

Location

Images:

photo (c) Francis Doublet; Clesy; 06 March 2012