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Accident LPSO C172

Details are still very scarce and based on media, with the usual knowledgably wisdom in the subject. A C172 (twin engine, according to the media) crashed approximately 0.9 NM final RWY 03 LPSO with a Pakistani student pilot on board. It was a night flight, last night.

LPSO is the home base of GAir (currently part of the L3) pilot school (where I did my PPL and night rating), both 03 and 21 are very straight in approaches with no challenges. If you approach from the East, it can complicate just a bit but that was not the case since the crash is already on the short final, possibly on the point from base to final.

For now I can only see two possibilities:
- mechanical failure, or
- lost of control: excessive bank, lost of situational awareness, low speed;

At the end it is a loss of a life of a fellow pilot.

LPSR, Portugal

From Portuguese forum (https://aviação.pt/index.php?topic=4651.msg0;topicseen#new)

Cessna 152, CS-DGU, pilot reported not seeing the runway, witnesses reported seeing plane bank abruptly before falling to the ground.

No mention yet on official accident investigation site (http://www.gpiaa.gov.pt)

EHLE, Netherlands

Sad. Runway has a good visibility approaching from both sides. Did a couple night approaches there.

Last Edited by lmsl1967 at 11 Jul 17:48
LPSR, Portugal

Report published a few days ago. Likely cause listed as advection fog led to “Inadvertent entry in IMC with consequent student pilot spatial disorientation, due to the loss of visual references.”

http://www.gpiaa.gov.pt/wwwbase/wwwinclude/ficheiro.aspx?tipo=0&id=10625

EHLE, Netherlands

A recommendation to come out of that:

Safety Recommendation
Nr. PT.SIA 2019-0003

It is recommended that the European Aviation Safety Agency, EASA, evaluate and change the ATP integrated training schedule, where the nightly solo training flight, currently in phase 3, will be completed only in phase 4 after the basic instrument flight lessons.

It looks like a no brainer, if your training includes both instrument and night flying, to have at least some (basic) instrument practice before night flying.
But for us VFR/PPL types thinking of doing the night VFR rating one day, how much experience, like the simulated IMC during PPL training, would be recommended?

Last Edited by hmng at 06 May 12:29
EHLE, Netherlands
hmng wrote:
But for us VFR/PPL types thinking of doing the night VFR rating one day, how much experience, like the simulated IMC during PPL training, would be recommended?

Thats for the ATO to decide- when I did it last year, it was 2 hours minimum for LAPL(A) holders, PPL-s already have basic instrument flight in the program..

EETU, Estonia
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