# Accident 20060920021539A: Airtri TOURIST, Cornwall, VT, September 20, 2006

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 20, 2006, 19:15 local time
- Place: Cornwall, VT
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: Practice Training Manuevers
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 43.9609° N, 73.2104° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Cornwall, VT, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=43.9609&lon=-73.2104&mi=10
- Aircraft: NONE (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: AIRTRI TOURIST
- Reported engine: GEO G13BB
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 2
- Pilot flight hours: 0 total, 0 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20060920021539A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) WITNESSES STATED THAT THE AIRCRAFT WAS PRACTICING, WHAT APPEARED TO BE STALLS, AND THEN WAS SEEN SPINNING STRAIGHT DOWN. AIRCRAFT IMPACTED TOP OF TREE AT APPROXIMATELY 70 FEET UP. LIMBS WERE BROKEN IN A STRAIGHT DOWN PATH TO IMPACT POINT. BOTH OCCUPANTS WERE FATALLY INJURED. FIRE CONSUMED THE WRECKAGE. A BALLISTIC PARACHUTE SYSTEM WAS INSTALLED BUT WAS NOT ACTIVATED. THE BALLISTIC PARACHUTE IS ACCESSIBLE ONLY TO THE FRONT OCCUPANT. PROPELLER BLADES WERE BROKEN OFF AND SHOW DAMAGE CONSISTENT WITH TURNING UNDER POWER AT A HIGH SPEED.

## NTSB investigation

None matched to this report by aircraft and date. Search the NTSB's own records: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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