Fatal DA40 crash in UT

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Fatal DA40 crash in UT

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Wow, from the pictures it looks like it hit nose down, left wing low -- the left wing is broken off and the nose suffered tremendous damage. Looks like the plane might have impacted while in a spin.
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Wow - how horrible. It sounds as if he was a student pilot, but relatively experienced at this point working toward his commercial.
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Final NTSB report is out -- Lost control while practicing commercial manuvers in gusty winds that he may not have been aware of prior to departure -- https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Repor ... L&IType=FA
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Erik wrote:Wow - how horrible. It sounds as if he was a student pilot, but relatively experienced at this point working toward his commercial.
You're kidding, right? :shock: :shock: :shock:
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Tommy wrote:
Erik wrote:Wow - how horrible. It sounds as if he was a student pilot, but relatively experienced at this point working toward his commercial.
You're kidding, right? :shock: :shock: :shock:
Why are you saying kidding?

Anyone and I mean anyone can make a stupid mistake.

For example there was a long time factory pilot from Mooney who made the classic stall spin accident during base to final turn in a Mooney a few years ago. Experienced or not we need to all know that it is vigilance that keeps us safe.
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The implication is that the pilot is "relatively experienced" at 109 hrs. total time.
I don't think so. ...and a Mooney is not a Diamond.
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Tommy wrote:The implication is that the pilot is "relatively experienced" at 109 hrs. total time.
I don't think so. ...and a Mooney is not a Diamond.
...I was talking about the factory test pilot though. I don't have such an example for Diamond of course.

Anyway I think it is important when there are such tragic events to know that without ever vigilance it can happen to any of us.

A separate story - the designated pilot examiner, a fellow with 15,000 hours died about 7 years ago in a scud running incident in the mountains. Sounds like a real newbee thing to do, and something he certainly taught not to do - but as it turns out he did that sometimes when no one was looking. Unfortunately. SO I was sort of reacting with him in mind, that experience is not the whole thing, but modesty is good.
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Re: Fatal DA40 crash in UT

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Ouch poor guy. That's really saddening.
If I understand correctly he was doing a spiral dive which is intended to simulate a landing approach in hostile terrain in a an emergency. So the plane would have been steeply banked, relatively slow and near the stall and he must have caught a nasty wind shear and stalled a wing.
What makes me scratch my head is that the DA40 should recover form a spin almost by itself...
That's awful... such a young guy ... RIP.
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