Piper PA-46 (Malibu/Meridian/Mira... crash, Jun 30, 2007
Piper PA-46 (Malibu/Meridian/Mirage/Matrix/M-Class) accident on June 30, 2007 near Wangerooge Island, Lower Saxony, Germany with no fatalities. Cause:...
- Date: June 30, 2007
- Aircraft: Piper PA-46 (Malibu/Meridian/Mirage/Matrix/M-Class)
- Location: Wangerooge Island, Lower Saxony, Germany
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Takeoff and climb
- Cause: Not determined. The German investigation could not establish the exact cause because the cockpit was destroyed and no CVR or DFDR was fitted; no technical faults were found.
A Piper Malibu took off from Wangerooge with four passengers and a pilot, lifted off after about 300 metres with flaps down, entered a steep nose-up attitude, rolled left and crashed into a drainage ditch. The cockpit was largely destroyed and all five occupants were injured, two of them seriously. The aircraft was destroyed.