# Accident 20150722014939A: Cirrus Design Corp SR20, Lake Wales, FL, July 22, 2015

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 22, 2015, 10:44 local time
- Place: Lake Wales, FL
- Airport: Lake Wales Municipal
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: Landing: Approach
- Operating rules: Pilot school (Part 141)
- Location: 27.8922° N, 81.6119° W: From the FAA
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=27.8922&lon=-81.6119&mi=10
- Aircraft: N610DA, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N610DA-2015-11-17) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cirrus Design SR20 (registry code 2130000, https://openairdocs.org/model/cirrus-design-sr20) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-360-ES (registry code 17160, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-360-es) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CIRRUS DESIGN CORP SR20
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR IO-360-ES
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 1
- Other injuries: 1
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot, flight instructor, private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 1,175 total, 650 in this make and model, 250 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB ERA15FA277](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA15FA277) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20150722014939A

## Narrative

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

P.I.C. OF AEROSIM FLT. NO. CONN431 ON AN IFR FLIGHT FROM KSFB TO KFMY DECLARED AN EMERGENCY DUE TO A LOSS OF OIL PRESSURE AND SMOKE IN THE COCKPIT.  ACFT. DIVERTED AT 1435Z FROM AN ALTITUDE OF 5,000 FT.  TO X07. LAST RADAR CONTACT AT 1441Z AT AN ALTITUDE OF 600 FT. AND CRASHED AT 1444Z.

ACFT. CLEARED FOR LANDING AT X07 AND VARIOUS WITNESSES STATED:

1. HEARD THE ENGINE THROTTLE UP THEY SAW THE ACFT. FLY OVER AND ON RWY HEADING, BANKED 90 DEGREES TO THE THE LEFT OF RWY 17 AND DISAPPEARED BEHIND THE TREES, HIGH SPEED;

2.  ACFT. ENGINE SPUTTERED, ACFT. WAS APPROX 300 FT. AGL, LOST SIGHT OF ACFT. BEHIND A BLDG AND HEARD A LOUD BANG;

3.  HEARD ACFT. OVER RWY. 17, HIGH FOR THE APPROACH, ESTIMATED AT ABOUT 700 FT. AGL THE LDG. WAS ABORTED, ACFT. GAINED ALT. (50-75 FT.), FLEW RWY. HDG. TO APPROX. INTERSECTION OF RWYS. 17-35 & 06-24 THEN BANKED 90 DEGREES TO LEFT AND HEARD AND FELT THE CRASH ABOUT 5 SEC. LATER;

4.  SEEMED LIKE THE ACFT. ABORTED THE LDG., TURNED AND ENG. BACKFIRED,TURNED LEFT WENT BEHIND TREES, SAW CHUTE BEFORE IMPACT-EXTENDED NOT INFLATED (LINE STRETCH), THROTTLE MANIPULATION BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW AT LEAST TWICE BEFORE CRASH;

5. SAW ACFT. WOBBLING, KEEPING NOSE DOWN, LVL., FLEW RWY. HEADING, BANKED 90 DEGREES, LOWERED NOSE, AT TREETOP LVL. POPPED CHUTE BUT IT DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO INFLATE, PROP WINDMILLING LIKE IF IT DIDN'T HAVE POWER, ACFT. WASN'T GENERATING LIFT AND ERRATIC TRYING TO KEEP ALTITUDE, THIS WITNESS INITIALLY OBSERVED THE ACFT AT APPROX. 1,000 AGL.;

6.  ACFT. SOUNDED LOUD AS IT FLEW BY;

7. HEARD ENG. SPUTTERING, SAW IT WOBBLING, LOSING ALT., LEVELING AND DESCENDING, CHUTE DEPLOYED ABOUT TREE TOP LEVEL, HEARD BANG AND SAW CHUTE, CHUTE WAS NOT INFLATED, NEVER HEARD THE IMPACT.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB ERA15FA277](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA15FA277), Jul 22, 2015: Cirrus Design SR20 (N610DA), Lake Wales, FL, destroyed, 1 fatal. Probable cause: A partial loss of engine power due to oil starvation. Contributing was the flight instructor's failure to maintain control of the airplane during an aborted emergency landing, and his delayed…

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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