C56X, Aarhus Denmark, 2019

C56X, Aarhus Denmark, 2019

Summary

On 5 August 2019, a Cessa 560XLS touched down in runway undershot at Aarhus whilst making a night ILS approach there and damage sustained when it collided with parts of the ILS LOC antenna caused a fuel leak which after injury-free evacuation of the occupants then ignited destroying most of the aircraft. The Investigation attributed the accident to the Captain’s decision to intentionally fly below the ILS glideslope in order to touch down at the threshold and to the disabling of the EGWPS alerting function in the presence of a steep authority gradient, procedural non-compliance and poor CRM.

Description

On 5 August 2019, a Cessna 560XLS (D-CAWM) being operated by AeroWest on a non-scheduled passenger flight from Oslo to Aarhus collided with the ILS antenna for runway 28L at Aarhus whilst making an approach to runway 10R in night IMC (although completing it with full visual reference), touched down ahead of the runway threshold partially collapsing the landing gear before ending up on the runway where a fuel-fed fire started. The three crew and 7 passengers evacuated without injury but the aircraft was largely destroyed by impact damage and a subsequent fire and substantial impact damage was caused to the runway 28R localiser antenna.

Investigation

An Investigation into the Accident was carried out by the Aviation Unit of the Danish Accident Investigation Board. Data from the SSCVR and SSFDR were successfully downloaded for use by the Investigation by the BFU Germany.

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