ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 270813
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| Date: | Thursday 16 December 2021 |
| Time: | 10:07 |
| Type: |  Cirrus SR22 GTS G3 Turbo |
| Owner/operator: | BSA Ventures LLC |
| Registration: | N162AM |
| MSN: | 2724 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2007 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS/KTYS), Knoxville, TN -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Demo/Airshow/Display |
| Departure airport: | Knoxville-McGhee Tyson Airport, TN (TYS/KTYS) |
| Knoxville-McGhee Tyson Airport, TN (TYS/KTYS) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On December 16, 2021, about 1007 central standard time, a Cirrus SR22, N162AM, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS), Knoxville, Tennessee. The private pilot received serious injuries, and the pilot-rated passenger was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight.
According to the pilot, the event occurred on final approach when the airplane encountered wake turbulence from a landing Airbus A320. The pilot reported feeling a sudden bump, leading to an extreme roll of approximately 135°. The pilot instinctively applied corrective control inputs and commanded the pilot-rated passenger to pull the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS). The passenger reached for the handle and pulled it just as they reached a near-level wing attitude with the nose pitched down. The pilot felt the deceleration of the parachute for a couple of seconds before they impacted the ground. A postimpact fire ensued and both occupants evacuated the aircraft. The pilot was seriously injured, and the passenger received fatal injuries.
A review of Air Traffic Control (ATC) communications revealed that all instructions and advisories were acknowledged by the flight crew of the Airbus and the pilot of the Cirrus as appropriate; however, ATC failed to provide a wake turbulence cautionary advisory to the pilot of the Cirrus as required by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) order JO 7110.65Z, Air Traffic Control, for simultaneous same runway operations involving a small aircraft landing behind a large aircraft. Although the pilot was aware of the preceding Airbus, the very purpose of this advisory is to remind and emphasize to pilots the potential for dangerous wake encounters.
Probable Cause: The pilot’s encounter with a wake vortex from a preceding airplane, which resulted in a roll upset at an altitude too low for recovery. Contributing to the accident was the failure of ATC to issue a wake turbulence cautionary advisory.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.wvlt.tv/2021/12/16/two-injured-plane-crash-alcoa/
https://www.newstalk987.com/2021/12/16/a-small-plane-crashes-in-alcoa/
https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=104416
https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=162AM
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N162AM/history/20211216/1508Z/KTYS/L%2035.83680%20-83.95688
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a0f928&lat=35.829&lon=-83.965&zoom=13.0&showTrace=2021-12-16
https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/6/43039_1619967171.jpg (photo)
Location
Images:
Photo: NTSB
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Dec-2021 19:19 | Captain Adam | Added |
| 16-Dec-2021 22:01 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Dec-2021 23:55 | johnwg | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 17-Dec-2021 15:26 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Location, Narrative] |
| 17-Dec-2021 18:29 | Anon. | Updated [Total fatalities] |
| 17-Dec-2021 20:23 | RobertMB | Updated [Operator, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-Dec-2021 21:49 | RobertMB | Updated [Narrative] |
| 18-Dec-2021 03:16 | johnwg | Updated [Time, Operator, Narrative] |
| 18-Dec-2021 11:48 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Operator] |
| 19-Dec-2021 12:02 | Captain Adam | Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Dec-2021 03:03 | johnwg | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Jan-2022 17:02 | aaronwk | Updated [Time, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 18-Jan-2022 00:23 | Captain Adam | Updated [Location, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-Feb-2024 20:23 | Captain Adam | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Accident report, Photo] |
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