ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 200988
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| Date: | Sunday 5 November 2017 |
| Time: | 11:40 |
| Type: | Golden Circle Air T-Bird II |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N618ER |
| MSN: | 90062000 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 159 hours |
| Engine model: | Rotax |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near JMJ Landing Airport (02KS), St Marys, KS -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | St Mary's, KS |
| St Mary's, KS | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The private pilot and passenger planned on a short flight around the traffic pattern in an open-cockpit, light sport airplane. Shortly after takeoff, as the pilot turned downwind, he heard a “crack,” and the engine started to vibrate and lose power. The pilot applied power, but the engine did not respond. He turned sharply left and then tried to stop the turn and descend, but the airplane continued to turn and descend until it impacted terrain. A witness saw two objects fall from the airplane shortly after the engine sound “stopped.” Both objects were retrieved. The first object was the passenger’s knitted hat, the top of which was “chewed up” and had a line burnt/melted into it. The other object was one of the propeller blades. The accident is consistent with the passenger’s hat exiting the cockpit and impacting the three-bladed pusher propeller, which led to the separation of one of the propeller blades and the subsequent loss of engine power.
Probable Cause: The loss of engine power due to a propeller failure when the passenger’s hat exited the cockpit and impacted the three-bladed pusher propeller, separating one of the propeller blades.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N618ER
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Nov-2017 05:50 | Geno | Added |
| 06-Nov-2017 17:14 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Source] |
| 06-Nov-2017 18:55 | cpierce1999 | Updated [Date] |
| 06-Nov-2017 18:55 | gerard57 | Updated [Date] |
| 06-Nov-2017 19:36 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Nature, Source] |
| 17-Nov-2017 17:32 | Geno | Updated [Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 16-Apr-2018 19:30 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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