Bucharest - Oradea

On January 20, 2014 at 03:47 PM, Bucharest - Oradea experienced a crash involving Britten-Norman Islander, operated by Scoala Superioara de Aviatie Civila, with the event recorded near Petreasa Alba.

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

7 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 5 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 28.6%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 5, passenger fatalities: 1, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is weather. The twin engine aircraft departed Bucharest-Baneasa Airport on an ambulance flight to Oradea, carrying a medical team, one patient and two pilots. Doctors should go to Oradea to obtain transplant organs from a patient who just passed away. While cruising at an altitude of 6,300 feet vertical to the Apuseni Mountain Range, the crew encountered marginal weather conditions with icing conditions but continued when both engines lost power and failed. The crew attempted an emergency landing when the aircraft collided with trees and crashed in a snowy and wooded hillside at an altitude of 1,400 metres. A pilot and a passenger were killed while five other occupants were injured. The aircraft was destroyed.

Aircraft reference details include registration YR-BNP, MSN 822, year of manufacture 1977.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 46.5356°, 22.9428°.