Aix-les-Milles - Aix-les-Milles

On November 4, 2010 at 04:20 PM, Aix-les-Milles - Aix-les-Milles experienced a crash involving Beechcraft 90 King Air, operated by Aéro Pyrénées, with the event recorded near Saint-Antonin-sur-Bayon Bouches-du-Rhône.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The twin engine aircraft departed Aix-les-Milles Airport at 1520LT on a local training flight. The crew was cleared to fly between 5,000 and 6,000 feet. The aircraft overflew successively Marseille and Toulon then passed over Le Castellet. While cruising at an altitude of 6,000 feet and at a speed of 110 knots, the airplane entered an uncontrolled descent, dove into the ground with a rate of descent of 6,000 feet per minute and crashed in a near vertical position in a rocky zone located in the Sainte-Victoire Mountain Range, near Saint-Antonin-sur-Bayon. The aircraft was destroyed by impact forces and a post crash fire and both occupants were killed, one instructor and one pilot under supervision.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-BVTB, MSN LJ-579, year of manufacture 1973.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 43.5186°, 5.5826°.