ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 238390
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| Date: | Sunday 19 July 2020 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Grob G103A Twin II |
| Owner/operator: | Bourges Planeurs |
| Registration: | F-CFKS |
| MSN: | 3706 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Saint-Doulchard -
 France
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Bourges Airport (BOU/LFLD) |
| Bourges Airport (BOU/LFLD) | |
| Investigating agency: | BEA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The glider pilot carried out a towed take-off from Bourges airport to perform a local flight, during which he flew more than two hours above an altitude of 2,000 m. After 2 h and 40 min of flight, the pilot most probably suffered an incapacitation preventing him from flying the glider. The latter then entered a natural mode of divergent longitudinal
oscillations.
For about seven minutes, while it was gradually descending, the glider oscillated with increasingly greater variations of altitude and speed, leading to unusual manoeuvres with incomplete egg-shaped loops which may have ended in stalls at their highest point.
The glider collided at high speed with a line of trees, then with the ground.
Contributing factors
In the absence of information on the exact nature of the pilot’s in-flight incapacitation, it is difficult to assign causes or contributing factors. However, this long flight at an altitude requiring cardiorespiratory adaptation may have led to the occurrence of moderate hypoxia and may have caused the onset of an incapacitation. The pilot’s age and medical history may have been additional risk factors.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.leberry.fr/bourges-18000/actualites/un-mort-dans-un-accident-de-planeur-a-saint-doulchard_13813992/
https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/abpic-media-eu-production/pictures/full_size_0114/1172320-large.jpg (photo)
Media:
⚠️ Accident mortel d’un planeur de type Twin Astir II immatriculé F-CFKS survenu ce jour à Saint-Doulchard / 2 enquêteurs @BEA_Aero se rendent sur place demain matin / une enquête de sécurité @BEA_Aero est ouverte.
— BEA ✈️ 🚁🛩 🇫🇷 (@BEA_Aero) July 19, 2020
📄 Rapport d'enquête sur l'accident du #planeur GROB - G103 - TWIN ASTIR II immatriculé F-CFKS survenu le 19/07/2020 à Saint-Doulchard / Incapacité en vol, évolutions inusuelles et perte de contrôle, collision avec la végétation puis le sol. https://t.co/VZKMw799YK pic.twitter.com/dNUylmKW7r
— BEA ✈️ ⚙️🔬🇫🇷 (@BEA_Aero) March 29, 2022
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Jul-2020 07:03 | harro | Added |
| 20-Jul-2020 07:04 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Embed code] |
| 20-Jul-2020 08:32 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Mar-2022 21:45 | RobertMB | Updated [Embed code] |
| 03-Oct-2022 08:45 | harro | Updated [Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Embed code, Narrative, Accident report] |
| 03-Oct-2022 08:46 | harro | Updated [Narrative] |
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