# NTSB CEN18WA256: Cessna 172, Bad Voslau, Austria, July 4, 2018

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Foreign investigation
- Date: July 4, 2018, 08:15 local (08:15 UTC)
- Place: Bad Voslau, Austria
- Phase of flight: [Takeoff](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/300) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Takeoff: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 2 fatal
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- NTSB office: Central Region
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 97701
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=CEN18WA256
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/97701/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN18WA256

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Takeoff: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 5,002 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240/sequence.md)

## Factual narrative

On June 4, 2018, about 0815 coordinated universal time, a Cessna 172S airplane, F-HFPL, impacted terrain at Bad Voslau Airport, Bad Voslau, Austria. The pilot in command and passenger were fatally injured, and the airplane was destroyed. The flight was operated by Wiener Luftfahrerverband - Pilotenclub, Wien, Austria, as a personal flight. The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Austrian Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authority. This report is for information purposes only and contains only information released by the ACASIA. Further information pertaining this accident may be obtained from: Trauzlgasse 1, A-1210 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43171162/659193 or 43664/83733401 E-mail: oliver.bruck@bmvit.gv.at or fus@bmvit.gv.at

## Aircraft

- Registration: F-HFPL (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: Cessna 172 (S)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 172S10883
- Damage: Destroyed
- Operator: Wiener Luftfahrerverband - Pilotenclub W
- Registered owner: Wiener Luftfahrerverband - Pilotenclub W
- Departed: LOAV, Bad Voslau
- Destination: LOLW, Wels
- Flight plan: Unknown
- Airport: LOAV, Bad Voslau, runway 31

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: variable at 2 knots
- Visibility: 25 statute miles
- Temperature: 75 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Observed at: LOAV

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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