Fokker F27 Friendship crash, Sep 4, 1989 (2 killed), La G...
Fokker F27 Friendship accident on September 4, 1989 near La Grand-Combe, Gard, France with 2 fatalities. Cause: Loss of control in a presentation turn...
- Date: September 4, 1989
- Aircraft: Fokker F27 Friendship
- Location: La Grand-Combe, Gard, France
- Fatalities: 2
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: Loss of control in a presentation turn at very low height, caused by an overly brutal manoeuvre after the aircraft was in the wrong position at the start of the presentation.
A Fokker F27 Friendship 600 registered C-GSFS on a firefighting mission for the French civil security service crashed while approaching a fire near La Grand-Combe in the Gard department on 4 September 1989. Both pilots were killed and the aircraft was destroyed.