Sarl Priv' Air Piper PA46-500TP accident
Piper PA46-500TP · Accident
From Dijon Longvic airport (LFSD) to Lausanne la Blécherette Airport (LSGL)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN11WA691
- 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
- 0 · 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
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Piper PA46-500TP
- 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
- N747AW
- Operator
- Sarl Priv' Air
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Dijon Longvic airport (LFSD), DijonTo Lausanne la Blécherette Airport (LSGL), Lausanne
- 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
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- 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
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Not determined › Not determined
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Lausanne, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On March 8, 2011, at 1430 coordinated universal time, a Piper PA 46-500TP, N747AW, was substantially damaged while landing at the Lausanne-La Blécherette Airport (LSGL), Lausanne, Switzerland. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The two pilots and one passenger were not injured. The flight originated from Dijon (LFSD), Switzerland.
The Swiss investigators received reports that after touchdown the airplane departed the runway to the left. The front landing gear collapsed during the runway excursion.
The accident investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Swiss government. This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained from the Swiss government or Swiss Accident Investigation Board SAIB. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Swiss Accident Investigation Board SAIB Aéropôle 1, Route de Morens CH-1530 Payerne Switzerland info@sust.admin.ch
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN11WA691
- Event ID
- 20120808X74121
- Case number
- CEN11WA691
- 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: 6642ad1ef015c21cc353f3acac0c91a8d03fbea4f02c9c11c27cf7a99d5c2f53; retrieved 2026-09-15T19:16:43.390Z.