E50P, Berlin Schönefeld Germany, 2013

E50P, Berlin Schönefeld Germany, 2013

Summary

On 15 February 2013, an Embraer EMB-500 Phenom 100 crew lost control of their aircraft shortly before touchdown at Berlin Schönefeld when it stalled and crash-landed. The Investigation was not completed for almost six years but concluded that the stall was a result of ice accretion during an approach in icing conditions without activation of the airframe de icing system. It found poor crew awareness of both the ice and stall protection systems and, suspecting that this may be true of other type-rated pilots, accordingly made Safety Recommendations to key regulatory authorities concerning the type rating syllabus.

Description

On 15 February 2013, the crew of an Embraer EMB-500 Phenom 100 (OO-MAS) being operated by Abelag Aviation on a non-scheduled flight from Kortrijk-Wevelgem to Berlin Schönefeld with one passenger on board lost control of the aircraft just before touchdown at destination in day VMC and it crashed on the edge of the runway ending up just off it. None of the three occupants were injured but the aircraft was severely damaged and damage was caused to both the runway surface and runway lighting.

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU). The aircraft was not fitted with an FDR or a CVR and was not required to be but it did have a CVDR (Cockpit Voice and Data Recorder) installed from which relevant voice and flight data was recovered. In the case of the voice recording which contained a mixture of English and Dutch, an Investigator from the Belgian AAIU assisted with transcription into English where necessary (direct reference to any Dutch language exchanges quoted below will appear as translated into English). ATC radar data for the approach was also available.

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