Cessna U206 Crash at Aeródromo El Castaño, Spain (F-GSGT)

Overview and Flight History On 25 April 2008, a Cessna U206, registration F-GSGT, was destroyed in a crash at Aeródromo El Castaño in Luciana, Ciudad Real, Spain. The aircraft was privately owned and operated. It had been rented in France on 21 February 2008 to a private individual who had engaged a Spanish national as a pilot. The pilot named in the rental contract was not aboard at the time of the accident. The aircraft's logbook recorded flights in France in February 2008, and French air traffic control records indicated additional flights, including a series of circuits at Muret (LFBR) on 29 March 2008 and a departure from Muret on 24 April 2008. No flight plans were filed for these operations. GPS data from a portable unit carried aboard showed that on 24 April 2008 the aircraft flew from Muret to an airfield near Valdepeñas, Spain, where it was refueled with 162.5 liters of 98-octane automotive gasoline. On 25 April, the aircraft flew from Valdepeñas to an unidentified location in Morocco and then to Aeródromo El Castaño.