- Date
- September 13, 2012, 11:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Cape Girardeau, MO
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N19GPFairchild PT-19A
- Defining event
- Approach: Aerodynamic stall/spin
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 19, 2012
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA -- St. Louis Flight Standards
- FAA report
- 20120913028959A
- Case key
- 85143
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain sufficient airspeed during a low approach, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that he was giving a promotional ride in conjunction with an upcoming airport open house. At the time of the accident, he was conducting a flour-bomb drop demonstration. The pilot stated that on the third approach, he became distracted and was not fully paying attention to flying the airplane. The airplane got too low and too slow and stalled; the left wing was substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no failures or malfunctions associated with the airplane prior to the accident that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that he was giving a promotional ride in conjunction with an upcoming airport open house. At the time of the accident, he was conducting a flour bomb drop demonstration. The pilot stated that on the third approach he became distracted and was not fully paying attention to flying the airplane. The airplane got too low and too slow on the approach, and inadvertently stalled. The pilot reported that there were no failures or malfunctions associated with the airplane prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N19GP
- Reported as
- Fairchild PT-19A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- T421844
- Engine
- Ranger L-440C-5, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Air drop · Part 91
- Operator
- PT 19 Group Inc
- Registered owner
- PT 19 Group Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 2012 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- CGI · Cape Girardeau, MO
- Destination
- CGI · Cape Girardeau, MO
- Airport
- CGI · Cape Girardeau Regional, runway 10, 6,500 × 150 ft, concrete
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 76
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 24, 2010
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 6,000 total · 300 in this make and model · 6,000 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.28 inHg
- Observed at
- CGI, 1 nm away
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 25, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.0 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.