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Old 27th Apr 2012, 08:20
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EDMJ
 
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I thought the company had been bought by a new owner...do you have any brief details of the accident ???
A wing came apart in flight due to manufacturing defects by a contracting company. The BRS - required by law in Germany to compensate for the simplified approval/testing - had only been tested statically (no more was required by law) but the installation was such that it could not unfold in flight. There should be a report somewhere on the German investigation board website bfu-web.de

Unrelated to this, several Fascinations were found to weigh much more than their papers indicated, effectively grounding them as microlights as they couldn't remain below the maximum MTOW of 472.5 kg (in Germany).

DG Flugzeugbau now supports them. As far as I know there is an ongoing dispute between a Swiss and a Czech company as to actually owns the rights to the aircraft.
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