ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 184112
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| Date: | Monday 1 February 2016 |
| Time: | 10:15 |
| Type: |  Tecnam P92 Echo Super |
| Owner/operator: | Houston LightSport Aviation, LLC |
| Registration: | N323BR |
| MSN: | 986 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2006 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2385 hours |
| Engine model: | Rotax 912 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Arcola-Houston Southwest Airport (KAXH), Houston, Texas -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Houston, TX |
| Houston, TX | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The flight instructor and a student pilot, who had flown about 5 flight hours with the instructor, were conducting an instructional flight in the light sport airplane. The student pilot reported that he was conducting the takeoff with the instructor assisting, and about 200 ft. above ground level, the airplane began to drift off the runway centerline. The student said that he attempted to correct, but it felt like the airplane was losing engine power and the nose was dropping. He added that he was pulling back on the controls and that the instructor was also pulling back, in an attempt to recover. A witness reported seeing the airplane climbing after takeoff in a nose high attitude when the left wing dropped, and the airplane entered a descending left turn. The airplane then impacted two parked airplanes on a ramp adjacent to a parallel taxiway. A postcrash fire consumed the majority of the airplane. Due to the fire damage, only a limited examination could be conducted; however, no preimpact abnormities were noted with the engine and airframe. The circumstances of the accident are consistent with a power-on departure stall.
Probable Cause: The student pilot's loss of control after exceeding the airplane's critical angle-of-attack, which lead to a power-on, aerodynamic departure stall. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor's inadequate oversight of the student pilot.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
FAA register: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N323BR
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 7 March 2010 | N323BR | Flying Tigers Flight School | 0 | Baytown, Texas | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Feb-2016 17:43 | gerard57 | Added |
| 01-Feb-2016 18:16 | Geno | Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Feb-2016 18:20 | Geno | Updated [Source] |
| 01-Feb-2016 21:22 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 01-Feb-2016 21:24 | harro | Updated [Location, Phase, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 02-Feb-2016 11:59 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Nature, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 02-Feb-2016 12:13 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Photo, ] |
| 02-Feb-2016 16:39 | Geno | Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Source] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:30 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 27-Apr-2017 06:36 | PiperOnslaught | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 19-Aug-2017 14:52 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
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