The flight instructor reported that, after takeoff on the instructional flight, the Aerostar M20’s engine was running smoothly before it “missed” or “hesitated.”
He initiated a return to the airport, but shortly after the engine began to make loud noises and vibrate, ultimately experiencing a total loss of power. [Read more…]
The non-instrument-rated private pilot was making a 220-nautical mile (nm) cross-country flight under visual flight rules over mountainous terrain in dark night instrument meteorological conditions.
Radar data revealed that the Cessna 172 was flying in a northwest direction, proceeding en route between 9,100′ and 9,900′ mean sea level (msl).
The last radar return, which occurred about an hour after takeoff, showed the plane was about 80 nm northwest of the departure airport and about three nm southeast of the accident site near Panguitch, Utah.
A short time later the plane hit remote, snow-covered, mountainous terrain on a southwest heading at an elevation of 7,350′. All three on board the plane died in the crash. [Read more…]
During a solo night flight, the pilot “landed long” and was unable to complete a touch-and-go as planned at the airport in Madill, Oklahoma.
The airport did not have a parallel taxiway leading to the departure end of the runway, so he taxied onto the ramp area to turn around. During the taxi on the ramp, the lighting was “poor,” and the Cessna 152’s right wing tip hit a hangar. [Read more…]
The pilot reported that the Cessna 210 was low and that he felt “rushed” during final approach.
He added that, during the landing roll, the airplane “started to veer off the runway,” so he applied power to abort the landing and that, during the aborted landing, he “pulled back” on the yoke. [Read more…]
The commercial pilot, who was the owner of the Ryan Navion, was receiving a flight review from an instructor who was not familiar with the airplane make and model.
The pilot noted they did not discuss the potential differences between the Navion and the airplanes the instructor typically flew before the flight.
After departing, they flew to a nearby airport to perform touch-and-go landings. The pilot was performing the first approach for landing in gusty wind conditions. About 100′ above the runway, the flight instructor took control of the airplane. The airplane landed hard and bounced back into the air. The pilot applied full engine power in an attempt to avoid a stall when the flight instructor yelled “hands off the yoke.” [Read more…]
The pilot reported that, during approach, he pushed the yoke forward to avoid a flock of birds in his flightpath, which resulted in an “increased and abnormal rate of descent.”
He was then unable to arrest the descent, and the “main landing gear made very hard contact with the runway.” [Read more…]
The flight instructor and the commercial pilot receiving instruction were conducting a local training flight to practice aerodynamic spins.
A review of air traffic control radar track data established that the Cessna 172 entered two aerodynamic spins during the flight. The first aerodynamic spin began at 10,300′ mean sea level (msl), and the airplane descended about 1,000′ before it recovered into a climb.
The airplane then made a series of climbing turns until reaching 10,800′ msl where it entered a second aerodynamic spin. The airplane did not recover from the second spin before it descended below available radar coverage at 6,800′ msl (about 1,700′ above the ground). [Read more…]
The pilot reported that, during the preflight, it was snowing, and he wiped the snow that had accumulated on the wings of the Socata TBM 700 off “as best as he could.”
He added that, while taxiing to the runway, “snow was falling heavily,” and he observed “light accumulation of wet snow” on the wings.
During the takeoff roll, he observed the snow “sloughing off” the wings as the airspeed increased. Subsequently, during the climb to about 150′ above the ground, the airplane yawed to the left, and he attempted to recover using right aileron.
He reported that he “could see a stall forming,” so he lowered the nose and reduced power to idle. [Read more…]
The private pilot reported that the personal local flight was uneventful until the engine made an odd noise, which was followed by a partial loss of engine power.
He attempted to troubleshoot the problem, but the engine power was not fully restored, and the Piper PA-28R was unable to maintain altitude, so he made a forced landing to a road near Bayonne, N.J.
The plane struck power lines and vehicles before coming to rest on a sidewalk. The pilot was seriously injured in the crash. [Read more…]
The pilot reported that, during the first landing of a currency flight, he “never realized he was low on the approach.” The Cessna A185 hit a snow-covered area short of the asphalt runway in Fairbanks, Alaska, and nosed over. [Read more…]
