2013 Fundación Infante de Orleans Hispano Aviación HA-200 crash
Hispano HA-200 · Piloting error
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
- 1 · 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
- 18
- 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
Hispano HA-200
- Aircraft type
- Hispano HA-200
- 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
- EC-DXR
- Operator
- Fundación Infante de Orleans
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Task performance
- Personnel issues › Experience/knowledge
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Madrid-Cuatro Vientos Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2013 Fundación Infante de Orleans Hispano Aviación HA-200 crash was an aviation accident of a Hispano Aviación HA-200 Saeta belonging to the Fundación Infante de Orleans, which took place on 5 May 2013 during an air display of historic aircraft. The aircraft was carrying only its pilot, who was killed. The aircraft took off from Cuatro Vientos Aerodrome, near Madrid, and the accident took place at the same aerodrome shortly before 14:00.
Description of the accident
Witnesses said that the aircraft flew too low in the last part of the air display, after which it struck the airport's electrical transformer and crashed. Fragments of the aircraft caused various damage on the ground, particularly in an outdoor parking area and at the facilities of the National Police Corps. None of this damage, except as regards the crashed aircraft, had catastrophic effects. However, the destruction of the transformer and a problem with the backup generators left the airport without electricity for an hour and a half, hampering the rescue and firefighting work. The aircraft was destroyed.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The president of the foundation organising the display described the accident as «inexplicable and very surprising», bearing in mind the experience of the pilot, a serving military officer. However, the technical report issued by the CIAIAC determined that the accident was due to a piloting error during the final manoeuvre, which may have been influenced by the fact that the pilot was used to flying more modern combat aircraft with performance and responsiveness far superior to those of this historic aircraft.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del Hispano Aviación HA-200 de la Fundación Infante de Orleans de 2013” (revision 174772771, 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
Spanish Wikipedia article: Accidente del Hispano Aviación HA-200 de la Fundación Infante de Orleans de 2013
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 174772771 · 2026-08-09 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q15955400
- 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
- es Wikipedia article "Accidente del Hispano Aviación HA-200 de la Fundación Infante de Orleans de 2013" (page 5812759, revision 174772771), 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A historic jet owned by a private foundation crashed during an air display of historic aircraft: a civilian air show, general aviation. The article: "belonging to the Fundación Infante de Orleans, which took place on 5 May 2013 during an air display of historic aircraft"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.