BizJet accident in St Moritz / Samedan

[daninho]

A Falcon 10 heading from Vienna to St Moritz failed to land safe at St Moritz Airport yesterday in the late afternoon in very bad weather conditions

The plane involved was VP-BAF. The jet was a regular visitor to Europe highest airport. 2 people were killed and one injured

http://www.kapo.ch/download_bilder/6877270.jpg

My condolences to the families

[AdamC]

I was watching this unfold on their live webcam.

Also see here where someone got film of the clean up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4USv2VwdAt8

Condolences to all involved.

Cheers

Adam

[fritz]

to AdamC

You saw the accident?
How were the weather conditions? Because we heard different versions.
My best friend Gerwin was the Co-Pilot...

[AdamC]

Fritz, don't remember exaclty but didn't look to flash at the time. Couldn't see the mountains in the back ground and the camera was fogged a little. When the metar came up at the bottom of the webcam screen i remember reduced vis in snow, not sure of the rest sorry.

Sorry to hear about your loss, deepest sympathy.

I also noticed the different paint scheme on the aircraft.

[FWJ]

Bit thin on the news front , just found this from SWISS INFO http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_dig...68157000&ty=nd

[daninho]

Samedan Airport has to be closed - decided by Swiss authorities - until the snow walls has been removed beside the runway

http://www.bazl.admin.ch/aktuell/medieninformation/00024/index.html?lang=de&msg-id=25348

and with google translated english version

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bazl.admin.ch%2Faktuell%2Fmedieninformation%2F00024%2Findex.html%3Flang%3Dde%26msg-id%3D25348&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0=

Dani

[daninho]

The airport is open again after a special event for removing the snow involving voluntary people from the whole region