Emergency landing after engine failure, Cosmos BI Phase II, PH-3E6, near Stadskanaal Airfield, 23 June 2019
Status :
Closed
During a local instruction flight of 45 minutes, a touch and go was made on runway 06 of Stadskanaal Airfield. Passing the end of the runway and overhead a grass strip, the engine stopped at an altitude of less than 100 metres. The instructor pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in a potato field in the extension of the runway. About sixteen meters after touching the ground, the nose wheel broke off and the airplane flipped over and came to rest on its side. Both occupants (instructor and student pilot) left the aeroplane without injuries. The airplane was heavily damaged.
A full analysis of this accident is published in the Quarterly Aviation Report over the 2nd quarter of 2019.
