ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 293742
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| Date: | Thursday 26 May 2005 |
| Time: | 22:05 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 172 |
| Owner/operator: | Flightgest Incorporated |
| Registration: | N496AC |
| MSN: | 17281006 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2001 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2272 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming I0-360 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Raleigh, North Carolina -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Raleigh/Durham Airport, NC (RDU/KRDU) |
| RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
According to the pilot, after returning from a cross-country flight they were conducting a night landing on runway 32. After landing on the runway, the airplane bounced and the pilot added full power, and started a right climbing turn. After seeing another airplane on short final approach to runway 23L, the pilot elected to continue the right climbing turn. At this point the pilot noticed that the airspeed had dropped to 40 knots. The airplane collided with trees.. The post-accident examination of the airplane revealed the nose of the airplane was crushed and displaced aft towards the firewall. The right wing assembly displayed leading edge crush damage, and separated at the wing root. The left wing assembly was buckled and displaced aft. The vertical and horizontal stabilizers were buckled and twisted. The empennage was buckled, and no flight control anomalies with the airplane were reported by the pilot prior to the accident.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to maintain adequate obstacle clearance during initial climb, which resulted in an in-flight collision with trees
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ATL05CA088
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 30 October 2003 | N496AC | Air Care Inc. | 0 | New Bern, North Carolina | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 10-Oct-2022 12:57 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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