Fatal UT accident appears to be DA40

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Fatal UT accident appears to be DA40

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April 23 around 6:40 pm. Left KCDC with 4 people on board and crashed 3 minutes later headed up Cedar Canyon. 4 fatalities. Flight aware shows 2004 DA40. N number does not show up in a search of this forum.
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This appears to be the FlightAware track of the accident aircraft:

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N32 ... -113.01857

Didn't appear to gain any altitude after takeoff...

Pretty high, rough terrain in that area...
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And having 4 seats doesn’t mean you should take 4 people. This is just up the road from me.
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Very sobering. Condolences to all the families involved.

The aircraft was listed as being on the line for Platinum Aviation out of Spanish Fork, and it also shows up as the N-number for one of our foum members, although I believe they upgraded to a 2007XL a few years ago so hopefully they aren't involved.

It wll be interesting to learn more details about what happened when they become available.
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There is likely to be a list of errors that combined for this accident. Here's an interesting bit from the web site. Can you spot the conflicting numbers?
Screen Shot 2022-04-24 at 09.59.08.png
2002 DA40-180: MT, PowerFlow, 530W/430W, KAP140, ext. baggage, 1090 ES out, 2646 MTOW, 40gal., Surefly, Flightstream 210, Orion 600 LED, XeVision, Aspen E5
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Well, either the useful load or the max gross weight listed are incorrect. If the useful load is correct, max gross would be the standard 2535 pounds pre-GW increase...
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Reported to have had substantial damage just last year in an RLOC.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/261835

Senseless tragedy.
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Nothing out of the ordinary on LiveATC. Sounded like a normal takeoff then departure to the East. No further calls once they depart to the East. I checked the guard archive for CDC as well and there was nothing.

https://archive.liveatc.net/kcdc/KCDC1- ... -0030Z.mp3

What a terrible accident.
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Steve wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 5:46 pm Well, either the useful load or the max gross weight listed are incorrect. If the useful load is correct, max gross would be the standard 2535 pounds pre-GW increase...
My guess is the UL wasn't updated upon the change. I probably shouldn't have bothered posting it as the MTOW mod does not actually affect performance. I was looking to see what the weight was. That number is credible for that serial number and puts it in the low-medium category for empty weight among DA40's.

I can think of a list of the usual suspects for this kind of problem. I'm guessing it was fairly warm down in Southern Utah yesterday?
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Rich wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 8:13 pmI can think of a list of the usual suspects for this kind of problem. I'm guessing it was fairly warm down in Southern Utah yesterday?
Me too, but I'll reserve comment until more factual info comes out...
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