A Columbia 400, registration N6504H, has crashed during emergency landing following loss of power near Gotha, Germany.
The pilot was severely injured and taken to hospital.
According to ASN, the airplane lost power after departure and touched trees during its emergency landing and crashed into a garden.
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/234564
https://www.mdr.de/thueringen/west-thueringen/gotha/flugzeug-absturz-notlandung100.html
The aircraft seems reasonably intact. Also; peculiar airfield for a Columbia 400.
airways wrote:
The aircraft seems reasonably intact.
Though so too, not even sure if it is not repairable. Maybe not with European wages but in general. It sometimes makes me very sad to see how airplanes here are lost not because they are not salvagable but due to the high cost of maintenance are not economically viable to repair.
Gotha EDEG was features in this trip report. Yes, not too common for Columbias to operate from basic, bumpy grass airfields, bit not too uncommon either. As with the Cirrus, as long as the soil isn‘t too soft (which it currently isn’t – no rain this past fortnight) no problem.
But sometimes, an engine out emergency landing with an aircraft with a 60-knot stall speed just won’t go too well. It‘s also a matter of luck.
airways wrote:
The aircraft seems reasonably intact
These aircraft are incredibly strong. Ours was smashed into an embankment short of the runway and looked almost intact. Ours was written off but will likely fly again.
