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Fernelmont air disaster

19 Oct 2013 · Fernelmont, Belgium

Pilatus Porter · On Saturday 19 October 2013 a Pilatus Porter aircraft, a small transport aircraft, crashed in Fernelmont

From Namur-Suarlée Airfield (EBNM) to an unrecorded destination

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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
11 · 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
General aviation

Pilatus Porter

Aircraft type
Pilatus PORTER
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
Unknown
Operator
Unknown
Onboard fatalities
11
Route
From Namur-Suarlée Airfield (EBNM)To not recorded

Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.

From the Wikipedia article

On Saturday 19 October 2013 a Pilatus Porter aircraft, a small transport aircraft, crashed in Fernelmont. On board were the pilot and ten parachutists. None of them survived the crash. The aircraft had departed from Namur-Temploux airfield, among other things for the first flight of one of the passengers.

Witnesses saw a piece of one of the wings break off during the flight, after which the aircraft crashed. On 3 April 2014 the Belgian judicial authorities announced that the crash had been caused by an aerobatic manoeuvre for which the aircraft was not suited.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Dutch Wikipedia article “Vliegramp in Fernelmont” (revision 68826350, 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

Dutch Wikipedia article: Vliegramp in Fernelmont
Article
Vliegramp in Fernelmont
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
68826350 · 2025-01-31 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q15883521
Licence
Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
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Record
nl Wikipedia article "Vliegramp in Fernelmont" (page 3826802, revision 68826350), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
Wikipedia article coordinates
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 small aircraft taking a pilot and ten parachutists up from Namur-Temploux airfield, including one passenger's first jump: sport parachuting flight. The article: "On board were the pilot and ten parachutists."
Fatalities
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Dutch Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.