Crash de l'ASK 18 sur la Montagne de Romont lors d'un vol d'entraînement

Montagne de Romont, Switzerland Alexander Schleicher ASK 18

Le 30 mars 1989, un Alexander Schleicher ASK 18 s'est écrasé sur la Montagne de Romont en Suisse lors d'un vol d'entraînement local. Le planeur, remorqué par un avion depuis l'aérodrome de Grenchen, n'a pas été observé après le largage et s'est ensuite écrasé sur une pente boisée. Le pilote a subi des blessures mortelles, et l'épave a été découverte deux jours plus tard par un passant. L'enquête officielle a suggéré que l'accident était probablement dû au fait que le pilote n'a pas maintenu des marges de sécurité suffisantes dans des conditions de vent changeantes.

  1. Aerotow local flight: The pilot took off from Grenchen by aerotow for a local training flight and released at about 1000–1100 m MSL over the Grenchenberg before beginning ridge flying along the Jura towards the east.
  2. Limited recent soaring: This was the pilot’s first solo glider flight of the season after a 7‑month break from soaring, with only a brief dual check flight 12 days earlier and modest experience on the ASK 18 type.
  3. Marginal ridge conditions: Along the Jura the wind was changing from weak southwesterly to bise with sparse and weak lift on the ridge, making height maintenance difficult.
  4. Insufficient safety margins: While flying near the Jura slope, the pilot did not maintain adequate safety margins in airspeed and/or distance from the terrain under the prevailing variable wind conditions.
  5. Loss of safe flight path: The inadequate margins led either to encountering sink close to the slope or to an unrecognized low‑speed, over‑banked or stalled condition from which recovery was not possible at the low height above the terrain.
  6. Crash - fatal: The glider impacted a wooded slope on the Montagne de Romont at about 1130 m MSL, was destroyed, and the pilot sustained fatal injuries.
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