ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 183354
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| Date: | Saturday 9 January 2016 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Type: | Avid Mark IV |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N72MT |
| MSN: | 1431D |
| Year of manufacture: | 2000 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 350 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Near Florida Flying Gators Ultralight Airpark (3FD4), Minneola, FL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Minneola, FL (3FD4) |
| Minneola, FL (3FD4) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The sport pilot of the experimental, amateur-built, light sport airplane performed a takeoff and initiated a steep, left, crosswind turn to avoid horses off the end of the runway. About 300 ft above the ground, he smelled "burning wires" and thought he saw a "wisp of smoke." The engine "sputtered then died." The left wing stalled, the airplane rolled inverted, and entered a downward spiral. The airplane collided with trees and terrain before coming to rest, inverted, in a grassy field. Examination of the airframe and engine found no evidence of a mechanical failure or malfunction that would have prevented normal operation. The pilot received his sport pilot certificate about 4 months before the accident and had accumulated about 120 hours of total flight time at the time of the accident. It is likely that, following the total loss of engine power, the pilot failed to reduce the airplane’s angle of attack either sufficiently or quickly enough to prevent an aerodynamic stall/spin.
Probable Cause: A total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination revealed no anomalies that would have precluded normal operation. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack during the crosswind turn, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall/spin.
Sources:
NTSB
FAA register: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?nNumberTxt=72MT
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One injured in ultra-light plane crash in #Minneola https://t.co/EosEFigNFv pic.twitter.com/VFmrmIfbIQ
— Orlando Sentinel (@orlandosentinel) January 9, 2016Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Jan-2016 23:57 | Geno | Added |
| 10-Jan-2016 09:28 | Anon. | Updated [Damage] |
| 10-Jan-2016 09:54 | harro | Updated [Embed code] |
| 11-Jan-2016 16:05 | Geno | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Embed code] |
| 11-Jan-2016 16:07 | Geno | Updated [Narrative] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:30 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 19-Aug-2017 15:08 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Other fatalities, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
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