What: Cessna 152
Where: Matarraque, S. Domingos de Rana Portugal
When: June 26, 2012 22:33
Who: 2 fatalities
Why: A pilot of the Leávia flight school and a student pilot had made one pass at the runway at Tires aerodrome in Cascais, and had circled to make another pass when they crashed on a training flight. The plane impacted between residences in Matarraque, Sao Domingos de Rana, Portugal.
Judging by proximity, investigators conjecture that the pilot may have been intending to make an emergency landing on the A5. The plane ended up in a yard between two houses on Saudade street about two miles from the airfield. The plane crashed but did not burn. There were no casualties on the ground. Emergency responders included corporate volunteer firefighters and and an ambulance from the National Institute of Emergency Medicine.
The instructor was 45 and his student was in her twenties.
Witnesses say they heard the engine stop before the plane crashed. The “Gabinete de Prevenção e Investigação de Acidentes com Aeronaves” is investigating.
