ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 173042
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| Date: | Friday 16 January 2015 |
| Time: | 11:20 |
| Type: |  Luscombe 8E Silvaire Deluxe |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N1745K |
| MSN: | 4472 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1946 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2330 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental C-85-12F |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | NE of Cameron Field Airport (GA81), Fort Valley, GA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Macon-Lewis B. Wilson Airport, GA (MCN/KMCN) |
| Macon-Lewis B. Wilson Airport, GA (MCN/KMCN) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On January 16, 2015, about 1120 Eastern Standard Time, a Luscombe 8E, N1745K, was substantially damaged when it impacted a peanut field adjacent to Cameron Field Airport (GA81) in Fort Valley, Georgia. The flight instructor was fatally injured and the private pilot was seriously injured. Day visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The instructional flight was conducted under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. The flight had departed from the Middle Georgia Regional Airport (MCN), Macon, Georgia.
The flight instructor was providing the private pilot with 1 hour of flight experience in the tailwheel airplane to meet insurance company requirements. About 20 minutes after departure, while performing a simulated engine-out approach to landing, the flight instructor allowed the airspeed to decay, and the airplane entered an aerodynamic stall, about 300 ft short of the runway. The airplane impacted the ground in a steep, left-wing-down attitude. The private pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Probable Cause: The flight instructor’s failure to maintain airspeed during an approach with a simulated engine failure, which resulted in an exceedance of the wing’s critical angle-of-attack and a subsequent aerodynamic stall/spin.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
FAA register: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=1745K
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Images:
Photo: NTSB
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Jan-2015 18:38 | gerard57 | Added |
| 16-Jan-2015 19:57 | Geno | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Location, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Jan-2015 20:03 | Geno | Updated [Narrative] |
| 21-Jan-2015 02:26 | Geno | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source, Narrative] |
| 23-Jan-2015 22:31 | Geno | Updated [Time, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:28 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 01-Dec-2017 11:47 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Sep-2022 16:39 | Captain Adam | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Photo] |
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