9Victor
25th Oct 2000, 03:38
On June 08:
A KLM flight instructor flew without a valid license over the Netherlands and caused a fatal mid-air collission with another KLM Royal Dutch flightschool aircraft.
Result: 2 student pilots and another KLM instructor were killed, 2 KLM students were seriously injured.
The instructor causing the accident, apparantly managed to escape without injuries and is under a police investigation.
KLM flightschool in the mean time has confirmed that they were aware of the fact that the instructor was flying while having an expired licence. However due to a combination of management problems, computer malfunctions and the lack of internal control, this situation was allowed to happen.
KLM flightschool furthermore said that before and during the fatal flight, the instructor causing the accident, has done everything wrong that you can possibly think of; no pre-flight registration, not changing his flightplan from local IFR to VFR while doing so, and (according to witnesses), behaving as a "cowboy in the sky".
The reason: performing a non-scheduled non-authorized 'airshow' over the house of his father (also a KLM flight instructor), who was celebrating his 50th birthday.
The instructor had no aerobatic experience at all.
Apparantly it has been the worst in a recent series of serious (and fatal) incidents and accidents, happening within the KLM flightschools in the Netherlands and the USA.
What puzzles me the most, is the fact that I read that even their (in the mean time fired) chief pilot/flightinstructor did not have a proper licence and was caught several times flying in the USA (Phoenix AZ)and the Netherlands.
FYI: the source of this all is an official internal report of KLM Flight school.
A KLM flight instructor flew without a valid license over the Netherlands and caused a fatal mid-air collission with another KLM Royal Dutch flightschool aircraft.
Result: 2 student pilots and another KLM instructor were killed, 2 KLM students were seriously injured.
The instructor causing the accident, apparantly managed to escape without injuries and is under a police investigation.
KLM flightschool in the mean time has confirmed that they were aware of the fact that the instructor was flying while having an expired licence. However due to a combination of management problems, computer malfunctions and the lack of internal control, this situation was allowed to happen.
KLM flightschool furthermore said that before and during the fatal flight, the instructor causing the accident, has done everything wrong that you can possibly think of; no pre-flight registration, not changing his flightplan from local IFR to VFR while doing so, and (according to witnesses), behaving as a "cowboy in the sky".
The reason: performing a non-scheduled non-authorized 'airshow' over the house of his father (also a KLM flight instructor), who was celebrating his 50th birthday.
The instructor had no aerobatic experience at all.
Apparantly it has been the worst in a recent series of serious (and fatal) incidents and accidents, happening within the KLM flightschools in the Netherlands and the USA.
What puzzles me the most, is the fact that I read that even their (in the mean time fired) chief pilot/flightinstructor did not have a proper licence and was caught several times flying in the USA (Phoenix AZ)and the Netherlands.
FYI: the source of this all is an official internal report of KLM Flight school.