Saturday, December 08, 2012

Piper PA-32, German registration, D-EUEU, and Robin Regent DR400, German registration D-EHJP: Accident occurred December 08, 2012 in Melbach, Germany

NTSB Identification: CEN13WA092A
 Nonscheduled 14 CFR Unknown
Accident occurred Saturday, December 08, 2012 in Melbach, Germany
Aircraft: PIPER PA-32, registration:
Injuries: 8 Fatal.

The foreign authority was the source of this information.


On December 8, 2012, about 1513 coordinated universal time, a Piper PA-32, German registration, D-EUEU, and a Robin Regent DR400, German registration D-EHJP, collided while on cross country flights near Melbach, Germany. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The pilot and 4 passengers onboard the Piper and the pilot and 2 passengers onboard the Robin were fatally injured. The Piper originated from Stadtlohn-Vreden, Germany, and the Robin originated from Reichelsheim, Germany, at undetermined times.

The German investigators received reports that these two aircraft collided in midair near Melbach, Germany.

The investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the German government. This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained from the German government or German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:

German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation
Bundesstelle fuer Flugunfalluntersuchung (BFU)
Hermann-Blenk Strasse 16
38108 Braunschweig
Germany


NTSB Identification: CEN13WA092B
14 CFR Unknown
Accident occurred Saturday, December 08, 2012 in Melbach, Germany
Aircraft: Robin Regent, registration:
Injuries: 8 Fatal.

The foreign authority was the source of this information.


On December 8, 2012, about 1513 coordinated universal time, a Piper PA-32, German registration, D-EUEU, and a Robin Regent DR400, German registration D-EHJP, collided while on cross country flights near Melbach, Germany. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The pilot and 4 passengers onboard the Piper and the pilot and 2 passengers onboard the Robin were fatally injured. The Piper originated from Stadtlohn-Vreden, Germany, and the Robin originated from Reichelsheim, Germany, at undetermined times.
 

The German investigators received reports that these two aircraft collided in midair near Melbach, Germany.

The investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the German government. This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained from the German government or German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:

German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation
Bundesstelle fuer Flugunfalluntersuchung (BFU)
Hermann-Blenk Strasse 16
38108 Braunschweig
Germany


  A forensic investigator walks near wreckage of aircraft in Woelfersheim in the German province of Hessen December 9, 2012. Eight people were killed on Saturday when two small planes collided midair around 30 kilometres north of the German city of Frankfurt.

Photo: http://www.trust.org
Read more: 

http://www.fr-online.de

http://www.bild.de

Translation to English:

Wölfersheim (Hesse) - Four adults and four children died when two small planes collide in Wölfersheim (Hessen) in the air. 

 The aircraft crashed on two adjacent fields from a distance of about 400 meters. "The debris field is huge," said police spokesman Jörg Reinemer to BILD.de.

"It's a horrible image that offers the emergency services," said the Chief Executive of the Wetterau, Joachim Arnold, at the crash site: The ruins are spread over several hundred meters in a field near the village of Melbach. A police helicopter illuminated the widely cordoned accident. A large contingent of police, firefighters and rescue workers were in use.

The smaller of the two aircraft was smashed to the ground. Some of the bodies had drilled through the force of the impact partially in the frozen ground. The forces searched in the freezing cold on the illuminated with spotlights fields for the dead.

"Several forces are trying at the moment to obtain more information on Zielfughafen and the identity of the victims," ​​the police spokesman said.

The cause of the crash is still unclear. In the accident against 16.15 clock just the sun had shone. "It was very clear vision," said Reinemer. The Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation in Brunswick has been turned on. "Probably it will take days, until the results", said the spokesman.

Just a few kilometers from the crash site lies the airfield Reichelsheim, which is served primarily by business and leisure equipment. Whether the planes were on the way there or are started from there is not yet clear. Both aircraft had started in Germany.

On the airfield Reichelsheim also the rescue helicopter air rescue center Hesse is stationed. This was alarmed by the Leitfunkstelle Frankfurt, for the victims but all help came too late.

Only in March was near the southern Hesse Egelsbach airport (also in Hessen) crashed an airplane. Again, this is mainly served by smaller aircraft. Three men and two women had died.

In just the past six months, there occurred nearly a dozen fatal accidents involving small aircraft. In early August accident four occupants of a single-engine propeller plane, which was near Coburg in Bavaria plunged into a wooded area and then burst into flames.

A month later, during a flight at an airfield festival in Baden-Württemberg Backnang collapsed staffed with four people small plane crashed shortly after takeoff. The 67-year-old pilot died at the scene, a 15 year old female passenger on the way to hospital. A 30-year-old succumbed to his injuries several days later.

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