ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 10732
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| Date: | Thursday 19 November 1981 |
| Time: | 11:15 |
| Type: | Piper Advanced Technology PAT-1 |
| Owner/operator: | Piper Advanced |
| Registration: | N15PT |
| MSN: | PAT-1 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | N Mathews, VA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
demo flight by Piper for NASA Langley.1/3-scale tests indicated undesirable stall/post stall characteristics, aft cg conds, which had not been previously observed during full scale wind tunnel testing. This was a flight demo / test out of NASA Langley. Fatalities included Piper test pilot (PIC), Langley's test pilot, and the flight test engineer. Cause of accident was thought to be unrecoverable flat spin into water.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Feb-2008 12:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 28-Aug-2009 22:04 | Anon. | Updated |
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