ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 282312
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| Date: | Thursday 1 September 2022 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Type: |  Diamond DA42 NG Twin Star |
| Owner/operator: | Diamond Aircraft Sales USA Inc |
| Registration: | N43RG |
| MSN: | 42.N455 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2022 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 285 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Orlando Executive Airport (ORL/KORL), Orlando, FL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Orlando Executive Airport, FL (ORL/KORL) |
| Orlando Executive Airport, FL (ORL/KORL) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On September 1, 2022, about 1700 eastern daylight time, a Diamond Aircraft Industries DA 42 NG, N43RG, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident in Orlando, Florida. The commercial pilot was fatally injured and a flight instructor was seriously injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight.
The commercial pilot and his flight instructor were preparing to depart on a local flight when the accident occurred. They taxied to the runway and continued the pre-takeoff and engine runup tasks. While at the holding pad, the weather deteriorated significantly to include thunderstorms, heavy rain, and high wind gusts to 54 knots. The pilots elected to hold their position to wait until the weather conditions improved. The instructor applied down elevator control and moved the left aileron into the wind. Review of available weather data indicated that a microburst caused the left wing to raise and the airplane rolled over, coming to rest inverted. The flight instructor in the left seat was seriously injured, and the commercial pilot in the right seat was fatally injured. The airplane was substantially damaged.
The surviving flight instructor reported that they received a weather briefing before the flight and that there was a small area of precipitation about 7 miles to the south, slowly moving north; they expected the area of precipitation would be in the vicinity after their departure. He stated that the cell did not appear to be developing significantly when observed on their radar.
An examination of meteorological data revealed that the pilots requested and received a weather briefing from a commercial flight planning service about 1 hour and 18 minutes before the accident. The briefing included convective SIGMETs for the area. The surface observations received included wind gusts to 36 knots and thunderstorms in progress to the south. If the pilots had checked the current weather at the airport 7 miles to their south before taxiing, they would have noticed that the weather there was deteriorating rapidly. The examination of the weather products revealed that the pilots were provided and reviewed the weather information that they encountered.
The wreckage was examined to determine the survivability aspects of the accident. The cockpit canopy was crushed and the overroll bar was fractured. About 4.4 inches of vertical space between the middle floor tunnel cover and the overroll bar was lost. The cockpit seats and restraints were undamaged. The amount of force applied to the airframe during the upset event could not be determined. The rolling motion of the airplane likely moved the pilots out of position before impact. This change in position, in conjunction with the decrease in occupiable space from the overhead structure deformation and stretch of the seat belts, caused the injuries sustained by the occupants.
Probable Cause: The flight crew’s insufficient evaluation of the deteriorating weather conditions in the area, which resulted in an encounter with a microburst.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://sports.yahoo.com/officials-1-dead-1-injured-030708187.html
https://www.boston25news.com/news/trending/1-dead-1-injured-after-planes-crash-central-florida-executive-airport/2NZNXFIJ5FGIHIBVXJOHPIKXGY/
https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=105848
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a52243&lat=28.544&lon=-81.339&zoom=16.0&showTrace=2022-09-01&leg=3
https://photos-e1.flightcdn.com/photos/retriever/5fa6380d74465824edc3d9e4d140ce30480754de (photo)
Location
Media:
The NTSB is investigating the crash Thursday of a Diamond DA-42 airplane in Orlando, Florida.
— NTSB Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) September 2, 2022
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-Sep-2022 03:12 | Geno | Added |
| 02-Sep-2022 03:51 | Geno | Updated [Source] |
| 02-Sep-2022 06:32 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Nature, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 02-Sep-2022 09:16 | harro | Updated [Embed code, Narrative] |
| 02-Sep-2022 09:18 | harro | Updated [[Embed code, Narrative]] |
| 02-Sep-2022 16:04 | johnwg | Updated [Time, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 15-Sep-2022 06:37 | Parry Hedima | Updated [Nature, Narrative] |
| 16-Sep-2022 22:32 | Captain Adam | Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
| 23-Mar-2024 20:34 | Captain Adam | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Accident report] |
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