Accident Sequence
On 9 July 2014, two aircraft operated by Aeroklub Radomski were conducting training flights at Radom-Piastów Airport (EPRP). The aircraft were a Cessna 152 (registration SP-KGK) and a Reims-Cessna F152 (registration SP-APL). Each carried a pilot-instructor and a student pilot. At 11:54 local time, SP-KGK, while executing its second turn after takeoff at approximately 800–900 feet AGL, collided with SP-APL, which was returning after completing its task.
Following the collision, SP-KGK entered a spin. The instructor recovered at about 150 feet AGL and performed an emergency landing in an unprepared field roughly 1900 meters north of the collision site. The landing ended with a nose-over. The instructor and student escaped without injury.
SP-APL lost the rear portion of its fuselage and tail section. It fell into a fish pond in a near-inverted position. Both occupants sustained fatal injuries.
Aircraft
SP-KGK was a Cessna 152. SP-APL was a Reims-Cessna F152. Both were high-wing single-engine piston aircraft. Examination of SP-APL revealed that a section of the rear fuselage approximately 1 meter in length was missing, as was the right half of the horizontal stabilizer.
Injuries
The two occupants of SP-APL died. Both occupants of SP-KGK were uninjured.
Cause
The investigation determined that the cause of the accident was the lack of effective observation of the airspace in the airport area by the crew of SP-APL while joining the traffic pattern. Contributing circumstances included the high-wing design limiting visibility from the cockpit, SP-APL joining the pattern below pattern altitude, the anti-collision light on SP-KGK not being turned on, and the direction of sunlight at the time, which may have hindered the SP-APL crew's observation of the airport and other traffic.