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UK TBM 700 crash eerily reminiscent of others

The Air Accident Investigation Branch of the British Department of Transport is adopting a cautious approach to its investigation of the crash of Socata TB

By Malcolm Payne

March 30, 2007

The Air Accident Investigation Branch of the British Department of Transport is adopting a cautious approach to its investigation of the crash of Socata TBM 700 N30LT at Oxford Airport (EGTK), England, on December 6, according to an agency spokesman. Sixty- nine-year-old multimillionaire Paul- Louis Halley, of France’s Carrefour supermarket chain, his wife and the Belgian pilot were killed in the accident.

According to an AAIB preliminary report, at about 1120 UTC the aircraft, which was inbound from Brussels (EBBR), was making a DME/NDB approach to Oxford’s Runway 01. At an estimated 50 feet agl and at the beginning of the flare the aircraft reportedly rolled to the left and then hit the ground about 150 feet west of the runway threshold. The aircraft was extensively damaged and all three aboard were killed instantly. There was no post-crash fire, and weather is not believed to be a factor.

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