- Extremely high security – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Just before at 21:00 at night crashed an ultralight on Frøbergsberget approximately 1.5 kilometers from Hamar.

One person is confirmed dead and one man in the 60s of the district is taken to hospital with severe burns.

– We have no indication of what might have happened yet, says John Eirik Laupsa, Secretary General of the Norwegian Air Sports Federation told Dagbladet.

– Very popular aircraft

The aircraft is of a Dynamic WT-9, which is a widely used ultralight, according to the Secretary General.

– It is a very common and recognized fly. It is located is getting a lot of, it is very popular, he said.

– Is it normal that such aircraft crashes?

– No, I’ve never heard of any casualty in Norway with the type of aircraft, he said.

He thinks it is difficult to say anything general about why and how microlight plunge.

– It is an activity that has evolved very recent years. The aircraft has evolved very much, and it has been good technical quality of these aircraft, he said.

– How common is it that ultralight crashing?

– It was a casualty in Norway in 2014, and in 2010. From 2010 there was a further five years ago, he says, and adds:

– A is too much. We do everything we can to ensure that it will not happen. But despite it happens from time to time anyway.

– High-security

Leader of Jarlsberg Mikroflyklubb, Hermod Trana, told Dagbladet that safety aboard such aircraft is generally very high. He stressed that he did not know of this incident, and that he does not know what has happened in this case.

– There is generally very high security on these planes. If an emergency occurs, the aircraft is equipped with a rescue system, which helps to put the aircraft safely on the ground, he says to Dagbladet.

Trana has even helped to test fly Dynamic before it came to Norway, and according to him it is one of the best planes in Norway.

– flying characteristics of this aircraft is extremely good, and safety likewise. Generally, it is controllable from the 250 down to 70 km / h, says Trana.

He says it takes a lot of training to fly this type of aircraft.

– One should through navigation, aerodynamics, mikrometrologi and a lot of laws and regulations. There are a lot of things to go through before you get into such a plane, and I would say that the training is good for security, he said.