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Date:	Sunday 28 June 2026
Time:	10:59
Type:	Pilatus PC-6/B2-H4 Turbo Porter
Owner/operator:	Classic Wings/KIAS Airlines
Registration:	D-FIPS
MSN:	874
Year of manufacture:	1991
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 11
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Tomblaine, near Nancy-Essey Airport (ENC/LFSN) -    France
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Parachuting
Departure airport:	Nancy-Essey Airport (ENC/LFSN)
Destination airport:	Nancy-Essey Airport (ENC/LFSN)
Investigating agency:	BEA
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
A Pilatus PC-6/B2-H4 Turbo Porter skydiving plane, operating for Tandemotion Parachutisme, crashed immediately after takeoff from Nancy-Essey Airport (ENC), France. All eleven on board suffered fatal injuries.

The aircraft had been engaged in skydiving flights during the morning.
ADS-B data indicate that at 10:53, the flight landed on runway 21 following a drop. It vacated the runway to the apron and taxied back to the runway at 10:58. It commenced the takeoff from the taxiway B intersection of runway 21, just like the previous flights. The takeoff distance available from that point is about 750 meters.
ADS-B datapoints then suggest the aircraft slightly drifted to the left on takeoff. From a position over the runway threshold it made a left hand turn and crashed on a road just outside the airport perimeter.

“A mechanical failure caused the crash,” the prefect of Meurthe-et-Moselle said. The plane “plummeted straight down, and we do not yet know the cause of the accident,” he added. There was “no flight path consistent with an emergency landing.”
“The victims include five instructors, their five students, and the pilot,” the prefect explained during a press conference. The students were a group of private healthcare worker who had come to try skydiving for the first time.