A TBM700 enroute from Cannes to Kortrijk Belgium crashed in Paris, killing 2 out of 5 people on board.
http://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/articles/tbm-700-crashes-in-france/
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=168262
That is a startling accident, a TBM700 enroute. Hardly imaginable.
Les causes exactes de l’accident n’étaient pas encore connues mercredi midi. Mais selon les premiers éléments de l’enquête, une aile se serait décrochée de l’appareil peu avant l’accident.
A wing broke off in flight the media write.
There is probably some confusion of the word “dechrochee”. The literal meaning is detach or unhook, but in aviation it means “stall”. Clearly if a wing detached en-route there would be no survivors. Sounds like a forced landing with a stall just before landing – engine failure perhaps?
How was the WX in the area at the time of the accident?
A wing broke off in flight the media write.
What I gather from my limited knowledge of French, a wing sheared off during the approach to the forced landing.
How was the WX in the area at the time of the accident?
The 1030z METAR was not great, but conditions look decent enough for a forced landing (17012G22KT 7000 BKN4000 17/15 Q1015).
He may have tried to get to one of the small airfields in the area (there are two or three) for an emergency landing and didn’t make it. The Parisien article says that one wing detached shortly before touchdown. The three survivors are children, two in critical condition. Sad.
Not really in Paris – about 50km away in Saint-Jean-les-Deux-Jumeaux. There is talk about a wing being ‘lost in flight’ rather than simply decrochee but witness reports seem to indicate that it spun in, narrowly missing some houses before crashing.
Neither of the two witnesses reports a wing detaching in flight. That comes from a reference to “first enquiries” probably from the gendarmerie because a wing separated on impact. There is a refernce to engine noise so perhaps that excludes engine failure. Either way it sounds like an emergency landing gone wrong.
The way the cabin looks, it was not a totally uncontrolled crash such as it would happen when a wing really detaches in flight. Also the fact that 3 people survived, albeit in critical condition) would exclude this scenario. The acticle in the Parisien mentiones that the plane “fell down like a dead leaf” which would indicate some sort of spin.
http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/deux-morts-et-trois-blesses-dans-le-crash-d-un-avion-de-tourisme-en-seine-et-marne-06-08-2014-4049943.php#xtref=http%3A%2F%2Faviation-safety.net%2Fwikibase%2Fwiki.php%3Fid%3D168262
I would not really take too much of this article as they have not even managed to get the pictures right (one shows a PC12…)
Weird to say the least.
