Unfortunately another GA accident :(
Four Bulgarian citizens (family) died in D-registered Cessna P210N in crash in Northern Macedonia few days ago.
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=223668
https://balkaneu.com/plane-crashes-in-north-macedonia-a-family-of-four-dies/
Many pilots lack the necessary knowledge of and respect for the mountains (and the weather) in the southeast of Europe.
I haven’t found any info related to the cause of crash but it seems that the weather was pretty bad.
Doesn’t look so badly damaged
[ photo removed – wrong aircraft ]
After a CFIT it is normally just a pile of pieces.
Very sad…
I see no ice protection on it, which is curious.
RIP, very sad!
WX is indeed bad. Stuck in Greece myself. Tomorrow looks a bit better.
Peter wrote:
I see no ice protection on it, which is curiousThat is really weird, especially as other recent pictures of the aircraft clearly show boots and a heated windshield.
Maybe inaccurate picture?
I don’t think that picture in the article shows exact aircraft. As usually the journalist picked up first picture of wrecked aircraft he had found on the Internet. The aircraft on this picture has blue tail while D-EUIB had red one.
https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/7495331
Judging the pictures on the Internet, I would say it had hot-prop but not the boots – I guess leading edges only were painted black.
Emir wrote:
As usually the journalist picked up first picture of wrecked aircraft he had found on the Internet.
That was an unusually knowledgeable journalist, picking a photo of the correct type of aircraft!
Looking at this picture, I first wondered why there were no survivors, given the cabin is intact, until I found out there actually were…
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=193180
If you have a VPN connection into the US – the republican herald articles linked to by Aviation Safety have the exact picture posted above.
That report is from 30-JAN-2017 – wrong aircraft. This is the one
