Visé mid-air collision
Aero Kiewit Club and Belgian Air Force Morane-Saulnier and Dassault Mirage 5 · Collision
From Kiewit Airfield Hasselt (EBZH) to an unrecorded destination
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
- 3 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 1
- 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
- Military
Morane-Saulnier and Dassault Mirage 5
- Aircraft type
- Morane Saulnier And Dassault Mirage 5
- 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
- Onboard fatalities
- 3
- Route
- From Kiewit Airfield Hasselt (EBZH)To not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Visé, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 25 June 1986 a mid-air collision took place between a Morane light aircraft and a Mirage 5 of the Belgian Air Force in the vicinity of Wezet (Visé) in the Belgian province of Liège. The three occupants of the civil aircraft lost their lives. This accident led to a years-long legal battle between the surviving relatives and the Belgian government.
Crash
On 25 June 1986 an aircraft of the Hasselt flying club Aero Kiewit Club departed from Kiewit Airfield for a pleasure flight over the Ardennes. On board were one pilot and two passengers.
Near the Walloon town of Visé the light aircraft collided with a Mirage 5 of the Belgian Air Force. The three occupants of the light aircraft lost their lives. The pilot of the combat aircraft managed to save himself by using his ejection seat. At the moment of the collision the combat aircraft was at a low altitude in uncontrolled airspace, defined by international agreements as class G airspace. Air traffic in airspace of this class is not controlled by air traffic control, mainly because the technical limitations of radar and radio equipment do not make this possible; in such airspace the responsibility for avoiding collisions lies with the pilots themselves.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Dutch Wikipedia article “Vliegtuigbotsing bij Wezet” (revision 67143902, 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: Vliegtuigbotsing bij Wezet
- Article
- Vliegtuigbotsing bij Wezet
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 67143902 · 2024-03-04 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q109450234
- 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
- nl Wikipedia article "Vliegtuigbotsing bij Wezet" (page 5520247, revision 67143902), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- 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.