The phase of the accident has now been changed to initial climb rather than approach, putting a different perspective on the accident. The crash site was only 0.25 km (270 yards) from the departure farm strip.
Looking again at the photos and video footage, the nose gear has taken a lot of impact and the wings are off. The aircraft finally ended up inverted. This looks more than a flip on a forced landing, more like it cartwheeled on the ground to take the wings off like that, perhaps trying to return to the strip after an engine failure. Also apologies for putting the workplace of Sousa Monteiro through the translator earlier. He was Director of the School of Aeronautical Sciences at Universidade Lusófona which is in Lisbon. Mike On 9/3/10 08:07, "Mike Willis" <[email protected]> wrote: > More on CS-AIG crash about the pilot and owner. The departure and > destination airfield is confirmed as Herdade da Atabueira. > > From comments posted on news site (machine translation) > > The causable aircraft was a Aircoupe, registers CS-AIG, whose owner was the > pilot of the aircraft - Cte Sousa Monteiro, ex-pilot retired from TAP. > Currently, this pilot was university professor and occasionally he made > commentaries televising when the subject was precisely disputes over air > accidents or around subjects of aeronautical scope. > > In the aeronautical world he was a figure somewhat controversial and > contested by many, especially between his peers. R.I.P and sympathies to the > family. > > > He initiated its long career of pilot in the Portuguese Air Force. The DHC-1 > Chipmunk flied and was brevetado in North American T-6, in 1964. He was > flight instructor of the Squadron of Basic Instruction of Pilotage, in T-6 > in the Air base nº 7, Aveiro. > > He entered in the TAP and flew the Caravelle, Boeing 707, 727, 747, the > Lockheed L.1011 Tristar and the Airbus A340. He had close to 20.000 hours of > flying and was currently leading the course of aeronautical sciences in the > Lusophone University. > > Alon Aircoupe A-2A > Construído em 1968 > Peso: 600 kg > Motor: Continental de 90 hp > Velocidade de cruzeiro: 90 kt = 167 km/h > Consumo médio: 18 a 20 litros / hora > Tempo total de voo: 1.200 horas > > > On 8/3/10 13:33, "Mike Willis" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A little more information: >> >> The aircraft crashed in a rice field near Ciborro and both occupants were >> killed. The airplane was found just 250 meters from the runway. The pilot >> was a well know retired ex-TAP captain and at his side was a very famous >> Major of the 25th of April 1974 revolution that ended a large period of >> dictatorship in Portugal in favour of a democratic regime. >> >> Source: http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=73367 >> >> >> The plane fell next to a rice field in the zone of Ciborro at 20h30 on >> Saturday and half kilometer from the particular strip of the Farm of Knight >> and Pine, from where it had taken off four hours before for a trip. >> >> For return of 16h30, one aircraft with two members of the crew left the >> improvised track that exists here in this property. In principle it was to >> take a short flight. However, the owner of the strip, close to 20h20, >> telephoned for the territorial rank of Montemor-o-Novo because it found odd >> the aircraft not returned, it told to the RTP Martins commander, of the GNR. >> >> After this communication, came then one patrol that finished, later, >> presumably to find the aircraft broken to the way and with the two members >> of the crew already dead. >> >> Beyond the old captain of April Costa Martins, 72 years, the crash caused >> the death of Jose Alberto Sousa Monteiro, according to a source of the GNR >> of mentioned Ãvora for the Lusa agency. Jose Inacio da Costa Martins was in >> the command of the troops who, to 25 of April of 1974, they had taken the >> Airport of the Portela and the Aerodrome of the Base number 1 of Lisbon. >> The officer would be invited, to 31 of May of this year, to integrate the >> Council of State. In the governments who had been followed to the >> Revolution, he arrived to assume the folder of the Work. >> >> Source: >> http://www.vox.com.pt/noticia-detalhe-media.asp?id=532702&t=Dois-mortos-em-q >> ueda-de-aeronave-no-concelho-de-Montemor-o-Novo >> >> There is video footage of removal of the Ercoupe here: >> http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/Noticia.aspx?channelid=00000010-0000-0000-0000-000 >> 000000010&contentid=1C82F469-F205-4983-A760-8817C89242B0&h=2 >> >> It looks like the central spar section didn't survive. >> >> Mike >> >> ________________ >> Alon A2 >> A-188 >> G-HARY >> www.ercoupe.co.uk > > [email protected] > www.ercoupe.co.uk > > Alon A2 Aircoupe > A-188 > G-HARY ________________ Alon A2 A-188 G-HARY www.ercoupe.co.uk
