Originally Posted by
Teddy Robinson
Empty Weight 5.720 kg max. Takeoff Weight10.500 kg
Payload approx 2000 kg, so APS 7720 kg add fuel, add ISA +17, add mountain weather, add engine issue.
The investigators will deliver their report in due course, but in the meantime this a tragedy for 20 families.
Deepest condolences to those affected, this is terrible.
Conditions might have been a bit on the edge of the performance envelope (although having flown a good half of the distance from Locarno the fuel load would have been relatively light) but that doesn't make the plane simply "drop off the sky" as reported by eyewitnesses. There is no indication of structural failure and even with an engine issue a force landing was certainly possible. Strange.