Browsing through some old reports I read the final report on this one concluding poor EFATO handling to be the cause of accident.
PetitCessnaVoyageur wrote:
To you pilots, can I humbly ask, how that kind of tragic accidents, make you, eventually, (re)consider your taste for flying ?
They don’t. I know my time on this planet is limited. By eliminating all risk from my life, I’m not going to live forever, nor would I want to. I want to enjoy my life and that means taking a risk here and there. However I will mitigate the risk as far as possible – so means proper maintenance, proper preflight planning, following checklists etc…
Doesn’t say much…
climbing with increasing left bank (clearance was for a right turn) until stalling and going in.
We’ll have to wait for the final report to make any head or toe out of this.
Preliminary report published
172driver wrote:
eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable.
Very true.
I have a pilot friend who lives in Cascais – the local info is there are no airplane bits outside of the crash site, hence no “blow up” or bits came off the plane prior to impact.
Mooney_Driver wrote:
The Navahoe is an Avgas type however…. I’d be hard pressed to find a condition when Jet A1 blows up like that.
I am aware of that mistake I made. Alas too late to edit / delete my earlier post, so disregard. In any case, eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable.
Mooney_Driver wrote:
I’d be hard pressed to find a condition when Jet A1 blows up like that.
There is one single case I am aware of, where an inflight explosion was most probably caused by an air-fuel mixture in an empty tank ignited by sparks from a defective cable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800
172driver wrote:
Agreed, but it has happened on type before – here
The Navahoe is an Avgas type however…. I’d be hard pressed to find a condition when Jet A1 blows up like that.
…it takes the unique community of the forum to introduce Boethius to GA 
