The Accident Investigation Board has not found any fault with the plane that could explain why it went out of control. However, technical errors cannot be ruled out, says the Accident Investigation Board’s report. – This is painful. We have to live with it. The grief is there, and it will be there, says relative Øyvind Frich. Øyvind Frich is the father of one of the students who died in the plane crash. He says that the report from the Accident Investigation Board has given some more answers. Photo: Siw Borgen / news Limited information The reason the plane crashed was that it got out of control in connection with slow flight which was part of the training program for the students on board the plane. That’s what Kåre Halvorsen, department director for aviation at the National Accident Investigation Board, tells us. Kåre Halvorsen, director of aviation at the National Accident Investigation Board. Photo: H. Philip Hofgaard / news – We know a lot about the flight until it got out of control. Then we have limited information. When the plane crashed it was badly damaged and it also immediately caught fire. This has meant that access to electronic information has been absent. – And then there is a lot of other information that has been difficult to confirm unequivocally, says Halvorsen. Lost his life In November 2021, a small plane from the Pilot Flight Academy crashed in a forest on the south side of the E18 between Langangen and Larvik. The students Filip August Müller Frich (21) from Dombås and Lillehammer, Eirik Paulsen (22) from Bodø and the instructor Goran Neskovic (30) from Oslo lost their lives. The plane is said to have completed several 360-degree turns at an altitude of approximately 3,600 feet, before it quickly lost altitude and crashed. The Accident Investigation Board estimates that the plane was out of control for just over 30 seconds before it hit the ground. The plane hit mountainous terrain at an estimated speed of 145 km/h, according to the report. MAP: The picture shows the route of the plane before it crashed. Photo: Flightradar24 Karl Morten Rosenlund, principal at the Pilot Flight Academy, tells news that the report is as expected. – It is largely in accordance with our own internal report. Frode Granlund, founder of Pilot Flight Academy, does not wish to comment on the Accident Investigation Board’s report, but refers to the current management. – I was no longer the general manager when the accident happened and I withdrew from the school not long after, says Granlund. – A strong feeling Øyvind Frich says that he and the other relatives have dreaded reading the Accident Investigation Board’s report on the accident in 2021. The plane was so destroyed that it is difficult to find any technical cause for the accident. – They have not found any reason. But I have a strong feeling that this is the Pilot Flight Academy’s responsibility, says Frich to news. Karl Morten Rosenlund, principal at Pilot Flight Academy, says that Frich has no basis for that statement and does not understand where it comes from. Karl Morten Rosenlund, principal at the Pilot Flight Academy. Photo: Fredrik Hansen / news – I have full respect for relatives who are in despair at having lost one of their loved ones and want to find an answer with two lines underneath. And perhaps also apportion blame, says the principal. – But I don’t feel that anything could have been done very differently and I also don’t feel that the school has done anything that goes against the regulations we have to deal with. Witnesses According to the police, a witness saw a plane with problems on its way down to the ground. Then it disappeared from the radar. This was read out on the radio frequency for aircraft in the area at 09.21.55: Play audioGolf fox golf, from Farris (the air traffic controllers call up another plane) Yes The plane that was operating (not possible to decipher) when you took off I can’t get a hold of. And I don’t see him on the radar. So good if you keep your eyes wide open and report if you see anything suspicious close to the ground or under controlled air Unknown cause For unknown reasons, the plane entered a spin and crashed. It is not known whether it was the student or the instructor who flew when the plane went out of control, but the instructor must in any case constitute a safety barrier, the report states. The Accident Investigation Board further writes that there is no requirement for practical maintenance training for instructors with regard to either preventing spins or withdrawal from spins. The Accident Investigation Board recommends that the EU’s aviation safety agency (European Union Aviation Safety Agency – EASA) assess the requirements for practical education and maintenance training for flight instructors with an emphasis on preventing aircraft from going into a spin, as well as exiting from a spin.
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