Piper PA-31-310 Navajo crash, Aug 16, 2008 (1 killed), Tu...
Piper PA-31-310 Navajo accident on August 16, 2008 near Tukums, Semigallia (Zemgale), Latvia with 1 fatality. Cause: Probably a visual approach in poor...
- Date: August 16, 2008
- Aircraft: Piper PA-31-310 Navajo
- Location: Tukums, Semigallia (Zemgale), Latvia
- Fatalities: 1
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Probably a visual approach in poor visibility that descended too low, leading to a collision with a hill. No official investigation report was found, so this rests on accident summaries.
A Piper PA-31 Navajo flying from Riga to an air show at Tukums carried eight people. Most other aircraft turned back in deteriorating weather, and on the approach the pilot could not see the runway and went around. On a second visual approach the aircraft descended too low, struck a hill and came down in a private garden, breaking in two.