ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 232443
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| Date: | Saturday 25 January 2020 |
| Time: | 10:30 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-32-260 Cherokee Six |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N55455 |
| MSN: | 32-7300038 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1973 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3554 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-540-E4B5 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Cannon Creek Airpark (15FL), Lake City, FL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Lake City, FL (15FL) |
| Tyler, TX (38XA) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A witness described that, when the pilot arrived at the airport several days before the accident, the airplane's engine 'cut out' while on final approach to the runway. After landing uneventfully, the pilot had a mechanic service the airplane, and the engine performed normally. On the day of the accident, as the airplane departed, the witness reported that he watched the airplane turn 'hard left' after it cleared trees near the runway. He later heard a loud bang, then saw smoke. He drove over to the smoke and saw that the airplane was completely engulfed in flames. The airplane came to rest in the yard of a residence about 1,000 feet left of the runway's midpoint.
Postaccident examination of the airplane was limited due to impact and postcrash fire damage; however, no defects consistent with a preimpact failure or malfunction of either the airframe or engine were observed. Additionally, a sound spectrum analysis of the audio from a video recording showed that the engine was likely running slightly below full throttle before the accident. Given this information, there was no evidence that a loss of engine power preceded the accident.
The witness's description that the airplane was in a 'hard left' turn, the location of the accident site relatively close to the runway, the lack of a discernable horizontal wreckage path, and little fragmentation of the wreckage to suggest a high-energy impact, were consistent with the airplane impacting the ground in a near-vertical descent at a relatively low speed. Thus, it is likely that the pilot exceeded the airplane's critical angle of attack during the steep, low-altitude turn shortly after takeoff, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and loss of airplane control at an altitude too low for recovery.
Probable Cause: The pilot's exceedance of the airplane's critical angle of attack, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and subsequent loss of control at low altitude.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ERA20FA085
FAA register: https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N55455
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Photo(c): NTSB
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🇺🇸Cannon Creek Airpark (15FL ), Lake City, FL - USA.
— PLANES OF LEGEND (@PlanesOfLegend) January 25, 2020
Accident Piper PA-28 plane, 25 Jan 2020.
At least one dead in plane crash near home in Columbia County.
ASN: https://t.co/wnQfbvd3T2 via @AviationSafety
Press: https://t.co/nqLqU8mV4m pic.twitter.com/rUdJORj86u
A plane crashed into a home this morning in Columbia County near the Cannon Creek Airpark east of I-75 South. As of now, there is one confirmed fatality. @WCJB20 pic.twitter.com/pmtmAGMGxg
— Nicole Rogers (@nrogers_news) January 25, 2020
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Jan-2020 16:27 | Geno | Added |
| 25-Jan-2020 16:36 | Geno | Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 25-Jan-2020 16:56 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Nature, Source] |
| 25-Jan-2020 19:03 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Embed code, Narrative] |
| 25-Jan-2020 19:09 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Embed code] |
| 26-Jan-2020 14:32 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 26-Jan-2020 15:35 | harro | Updated [Location] |
| 27-Jan-2020 17:53 | Geno | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source] |
| 27-Jan-2020 23:02 | Captain Adam | Updated [Phase, Narrative] |
| 13-Jun-2021 18:41 | aaronwk | Updated [Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Dec-2021 21:04 | aaronwk | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 05-Mar-2022 20:36 | Captain Adam | Updated [Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category, Photo] |
| 08-Jul-2022 11:08 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, Accident report] |
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