ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 264170
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| Date: | Friday 18 June 2021 |
| Time: | 11:06 |
| Type: |  Cessna 150L |
| Owner/operator: | A-Cent Aviation Inc |
| Registration: | N1300Q |
| MSN: | 15072600 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1971 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 5422 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental O-200-A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Yulee, FL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport, FL (KFHB) |
| Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport, FL (KFHB) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On June 18, 2021, about 1106 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 150L, N1300Q, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Yulee, Florida. The flight instructor and the student pilot were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight.
The flight instructor and the student pilot proceeded to the usual training area over a river for an instructional flight. Radar data indicated that the airplane completed several 360° turns, at slow speed, about 800 to 1,000 ft above ground level (agl); the observed maneuvering was consistent with the performance of slow flight. The last radar return was about 300 ft south of the accident site, at 800 ft agl. Several witnesses at a nearby boat dock reported that the airplane descended into the river in a near-vertical, nose-down attitude. One witness stated that the airplane was circling and turning while descending; another reported that the airplane descended nose down in a “corkscrew” path. The witness observations were consistent with the airplane having entered an aerodynamic stall and subsequent spin. Two of the witnesses recalled that the engine was running until impact with the water. The airplane sank in about 17 ft of water.
An examination of the wreckage after recovery from the river did not reveal evidence of a preexisting mechanical malfunction or failure that would have precluded normal operation. The flight school that operated the airplane reported that the minimum altitude for recovery during air work, including stalls and slow flight, was 1,500 ft agl. Another student, who flew with the same flight instructor earlier that day, reported that the flight instructor routinely conducted air work below the 1,500 ft minimum. It is likely that the flight instructor allowed the student to stall the airplane at low altitude and delayed remedial action; the airplane subsequently entered a spin from which the instructor was unable to recover before impact.
Probable Cause: The flight instructor’s decision to conduct slow flight training at an altitude below the flight school’s minimum recovery altitude and his delayed remedial action when an aerodynamic stall occurred.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/camden-county/plane-crashes-st-marys-river/PR3ELFXJDVBE3HBKCP3MJ5ANLU/
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2021/06/18/plane-down-in-st-marys-river-witnesses-say-it-sank-quickly/
https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/breaking-news-plane-down-in-st-marys-river/77-5cc6b206-c7b9-41b7-9b8c-e780a825db52
https://www.wokv.com/news/local/camden-county/plane-crashes-st-marys-river/PR3ELFXJDVBE3HBKCP3MJ5ANLU/
NTSB
https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=1300Q
https://myflightbook.com/logbook/public/ViewPic.aspx?r=Aircraft&k=83190&t=t_2021051819514421-766709_.jpg (photo)
Location
Images:
Photo: NTSB
Media:
A source tells us this is a photo of the plane that crashed in the St. Marys River today. Two people were on board and we've learned that the plane is registered to a flight school in Jacksonville | @BenBeckerANjax will have DETAILS on FOX30 at 4: https://t.co/wfRXTzvR8r pic.twitter.com/aMbTFTqRiT
— ActionNewsJax (@ActionNewsJax) June 18, 2021
NTSB is investigating the June 18, 2021, crash of a Cessna 150L near Fernandina Beach, Florida. An NTSB investigator is traveling to the scene.
— NTSB_Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) June 18, 2021
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Jun-2021 17:35 | Captain Adam | Added |
| 18-Jun-2021 19:30 | Captain Adam | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Embed code] |
| 18-Jun-2021 19:38 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative] |
| 18-Jun-2021 19:40 | Captain Adam | Updated [Embed code] |
| 18-Jun-2021 20:21 | Captain Adam | Updated [Total fatalities, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 20-Jun-2021 03:34 | Geno | Updated [Source, Embed code] |
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