DarenC1 wrote:
That's not strictly true - there have been one or two badly damaged, but not "wrecked". To the best of my knowledge, only one Bf109/Buchon has been destroyed in recent years, that being the OFMC example in Spain in 1999 (which was a flying accident, not a landing accident).
MBB in Germany has just seen their third (a G-4) fly again after damage last year, after rebuild from a serious landing accident a couple of years previous. Their other two, a G-6 and G-10, have been flying relatively incident free for some time (although the G-10 was slightly damaged last year due to a slight undercarriage failure).
There's also been one Buchon flying here in the UK for the past three or four years incident-free, and the prospect of the ex-CAF example flying again at Duxford....
Badly damaged, but not wrecked?
You seem to have pointed out more incidents than non-incidents.
Taken from the OFMC Accident Report,
According to a witness testimony, when flying into Sabadell airport, the two aircraft,
with the Piper in the lead, began a pass at a low height and in formation along runway
31. Approximately halfway down the runway, the HA-1112-M1L aircraft abandoned
the formation to the left and partially repeated the pattern to perform a pass
along the runway, at a low height and high speed, finishing with a climb with a barrel
roll in the direction of Tarrasa and entered the left approach pattern to runway 31 at
the right altitude.
During that maneuver, according to the report from the airport tower controller, the
pilot requested authorisation to cross the airfield and land on runway end 13. Once
authorisation was granted, he performed a short pattern that ended in a left turn at
low height with between 30° or 45° of bank, as if trying to see the runway threshold
he left behind, with his landing gear down and in a landing configuration.
At one point during the manoeuvre, the aircraft’s left wing began to descend and the
aircraft lost height. Despite attempts by the pilot to recover from the departure from
controlled flight by increasing power and managing to climb a bit, it was not enough
and, finally, the aircraft impacted against terrain and caught on fire.
The aircraft slid across the ground, broke the fence surrounding the airport, crossed the
airport ring road, climbed the bank located before the runway threshold 13 and finally
stopped in the strip at the threshold height, about 30 meters from the runway end. The
aircraft caught on fire and was destroyed.
Seems like a landing accident to me.
Mike
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