CEN09WA091 · Piper PA46 350P
Piper PA46 350P · Accident
From Brighton City Airport (EGKA) to Vöslau-Kottingbrunn Airfield (LOAV)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN09WA091
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Piper PA46 350P
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA46
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N403HP
- Operator
- Gery Van Oortmarssen
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Brighton City Airport (EGKA), SussexTo Vöslau-Kottingbrunn Airfield (LOAV), Baden
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
A U. S. registered Piper PA-46T crashed in a wooded area during a visual approach into the Voslau Aerodrome (LOAV), Baden, Austria. The pilot and passenger on board were killed and the airplane was destroyed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The pilot had cancelled his Intrument Flight Rules clearance prior to entering the pattern at LOAV. The airplane was on an instrument flight rules flight plan from Shoreham-by-Sea Airport, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, to LOAV.
According to the Austrian Accident Investigation Branch, the pilot cancelled his IFR clearance and descended on to a downwind leg for runway 31. LOAV advised the pilot they were landing runway 13. The pilot made a left turn inbound toward LOAV in an area of high terrain west of the airport (elevation 2,880 feet msl). The airplane was at 2,600 feet msl. LOAV advised the pilot to avoid this area as the pilot reported his position as 5 miles east of LOAV. During a right turn from downwind to final for runway 13, the airplane collided with the terrain.
This investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Austrian government. Any further information may be obtained from:
Federal Office of Transport Accident investigation Branch, Department Aviation Postfach 207, 1000 Wien Lohnergasse 9, 1210 Wien Austria
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by, or obtained from, the AIB of Austria.
Probable cause
This investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Austrian government. Any further information may be obtained from:
Federal Office of Transport Accident investigation Branch, Department Aviation Postfach 207, 1000 Wien Lohnergasse 9, 1210 Wien Austria
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by, or obtained from, the AIB of Austria.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN09WA091
- Event ID
- 20081215X50051
- Case number
- CEN09WA091
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: c7053af515fab1cf02b663bf191c1f0a9801edcd8a10ff623a0b52baa01701ea; retrieved 2026-09-13T19:52:09.766Z.