Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
29NOV2006 at 1315LT
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Registration
 
D-CGSP
Location
 
Mindelheim-Mattsies
   
Flight number
   
Schedule
 
Mindelheim-Mattsies - Mindelheim-Mattsies
 
Construction number
 
97002
Year of manufacture
 
2006
     
Crew on board
 
1
Pax on board
 
0
Crew fatalities
 
1
Pax fatalities
 
0
Other fatalities
 
0
Total fatalities
 
1

Circumstances
 
The pilot, sole occupant, was performing a demonstration flight on this second prototype to a group of invited guests staying on the ground. Shortly after takeoff, the aircaft turned to rejoin the landing pattern when it plunged into a meadow approximately 4,5 miles from the runway. The pilot was killed and the aircraft, the first Grob business all-composite jet was completely destroyed upon impact.
 
   


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