Leadair Unijet Flight 001N
Dassault Falcon 20E · Engine failure due to bird strike
From Paris-Le Bourget International Airport (LBG) to Sibiu International Airport (SBZ)
Event
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 10 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 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
- Airline
Dassault Falcon 20E
- Aircraft type
- Dassault Falcon 20
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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
- F-GHLN
- Operator
- Leadair Unijet
- Onboard fatalities
- 10
- Route
- From Paris-Le Bourget International Airport (LBG)To Sibiu International Airport (SBZ)
Cause areas
- Environmental issues › Physical environment
- Aircraft › Aircraft power plant
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Paris-Le Bourget International Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
Leadair Unijet Flight 001N (flight number ICAO: LEA001N, IATA: BN001N) was an international charter flight operated by Leadair Unijet from Le Bourget Airport near Paris to Sibiu Airport on 20 January 1995. On this flight the Dassault Falcon 20E aircraft used crashed shortly after take-off due to massive engine damage following a bird strike, with all 10 occupants on board killed.
Accident sequence
After take-off from runway 25 of Paris-Le Bourget Airport, the aircraft collided with birds during the initial climb. The left engine lit up during the take-off run and failed shortly afterwards and then exploded. The crew declared an emergency and received clearance to return and make an emergency landing. On final approach the left engine was torn off. The aircraft then descended at an angle of 15 degrees and struck the ground near the threshold of runway 21 at 17:32. It slid 430 metres, then came to a stop and burst into flames. The Falcon was completely destroyed by the fire and all 10 occupants were killed.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The original suspected cause of the accident was an uncontained engine failure of the left engine, which set the tail section of the aircraft on fire. Dead birds were lying on the ground in the aircraft's departure area. Parts of the left engine, including the fan section disc, were found along the initial climb path. The probable cause was then taken to be that the accident was the result of a combination of a massive bird strike caused by the aircraft colliding with a flock of lapwings and an uncontrolled failure of the overspeed device of the affected engine. This had led to a fire which caused the loss of control while the aircraft was in the final phase of an attempted emergency landing.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Leadair-Unijet-Flug 001N” (revision 251249560, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Leadair-Unijet-Flug 001N
- Article
- Leadair-Unijet-Flug 001N
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 251249560 · 2024-12-14 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q117839970
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "Leadair-Unijet-Flug 001N" (page 12578784, revision 251249560), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- airport the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata code, OurAirports)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.