ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 280790
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| Date: | Monday 25 July 2022 |
| Time: | 08:39 |
| Type: |  Van's RV-9A |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N192MH |
| MSN: | 90556 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2005 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Tryon, NE -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Greeley-Weld County Airport, CO (GXY/KGXY) |
| Cherokee County Regional Airport, IA (KCKP) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On July 25, 2022, at 0839 central daylight time, an experimental amateur-built Vans RV-9A, N192MH, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Tryon, Nebraska. The pilot and student pilot-rated passenger were fatally injured. The airplane was being operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight.
The non-instrument-rated pilot and student-pilot rated passenger were en route during a crosscountry flight when they encountered instrument meteorological conditions. Air traffic control (ATC) communications and flight track data were consistent with the pilots being aware of deteriorating weather conditions along their desired route of travel and attempting to navigate around clouds before the pilot reported to ATC that they were in the clouds. The pilot’s final radio call to ATC was that they were “still in the soup” and the airplane subsequently descended rapidly and exceeded the airplane’s do not exceed airspeed (Vne) by 70-80 knots true airspeed (TAS) before the radar data ended. Witnesses heard a loud noise and then saw the airplane spiraling over their home along with separated pieces of the airplane falling from the sky before they impacted terrain.
The debris field was about 1 mile long, and the first pieces of wreckage in the debris field were portions of the vertical stabilizer, indicating portions of the empennage separated from the airplane first. The observed damage was consistent with structural failure initiated by flutter of the rudder and no pre-existing anomalies were found during examinations of the wreckage.
The accident is consistent with the non-instrument-rated pilot continuing to fly toward deteriorating weather conditions despite his knowledge of those conditions and his lack of qualification to fly in them. The pilot likely became spatially disoriented and lost control of the airplane after entering instrument meteorological conditions and losing the ability to see visual references. The airplane then entered a descent and exceeded its airspeed design limits to a point where rudder flutter occurred, which resulted in structural failure of the airplane.
Probable Cause: The non-instrument-rated pilot’s decision to continue visual flight into instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in spatial disorientation, a loss of control, exceedance of the airplane’s design limitations, and in-flight breakup of the airplane due to rudder flutter.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.ksnblocal4.com/2022/07/25/multi-agency-cooperation-downed-aircraft-mcpherson-county/
https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=105567
https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=192MH
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N192MH/history/20220725/1215Z/KGXY/L%2041.67472%20-100.80278
https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/50857_1591321365.jpg (photo)
Location
Media:
The NTSB is investigating the crash Monday of an Experimental RV-9A airplane in Thedford, Nebraska.
— NTSB Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) July 25, 2022
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Jul-2022 21:05 | Captain Adam | Added |
| 25-Jul-2022 21:21 | Geno | Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Embed code] |
| 26-Jul-2022 02:06 | johnwg | Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 26-Jul-2022 02:10 | johnwg | Updated [Category] |
| 26-Jul-2022 03:18 | RobertMB | Updated [Registration, Cn, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Jul-2022 13:05 | johnwg | Updated [Time, Damage, Narrative, Category] |
| 26-Jul-2022 22:32 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Narrative] |
| 27-Jul-2022 01:26 | johnwg | Updated [Time, Narrative] |
| 27-Jul-2022 05:57 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Narrative] |
| 20-Aug-2022 17:42 | Captain Adam | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 26-Apr-2024 22:29 | Captain Adam | Updated [Source, Narrative, Accident report] |
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