gallois wrote:
I have never heard of a Robin D140.
My bad, I corrected the post.
gallois wrote:
A week or so ago the talk of the club was of a D140 having crashed killing all on board in the East of France.
I called up the BEA site and looked for Jodel D140. There are fortunately no other crashes listed which have fatalities, only a few bent airplanes.
I found this however:
The pilots appear to have been known very well, which would correspond to your statement that
gallois wrote:
He will be a sad loss to French aerobatics as I believe he had been both a World and European champion.
I suppose that may be the accident the people at the club were referring to. Not a Jodel however but an aerobatic prototype.
This does not look good for a “bapteme de l’air” flight…
