ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 13822
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| Date: | Friday 1 April 1977 |
| Time: | 13:05 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-32R-300 Lance |
| Owner/operator: | Environmental Synergenetics Inc |
| Registration: | N6127J |
| MSN: | 32R-7680308 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Commerce, Hunt County, Texas -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Cox Field, Paris, Lamar County, Texas (PRX/KPRX) |
| Memorial Field Airport, Hot Springs, Arkansas (HOT/KHOT) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (destroyed) when crashed near Commerce, Texas, on April 1, 1977; all six persons on board (pilot and five passengers) were killed. According to the NTSB report, the primary cause of the accident was a structural failure in flight, with the airframe breaking apart whilst flying in thunderstorm conditions:
"TYPE OF ACCIDENT
AIRFRAME FAILURE: IN FLIGHT, UNCONTROLLED DESCENT
PROBABLE CAUSE(S)
PILOT IN COMMAND - INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS, SPATIAL DISORIENTATION, EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT"
The aircraft was fairly new at the time of the accident, having been first registered as N6127J on March 18, 1977, less than two weeks earlier. The registration N6127J was only belatedly cancelled by the FAA on August 8, 2013 - 36 years later!
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. NTSB Identification: FTW77FA048 at https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=56493&key=0
2. FAA: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=6127J
3. http://planecrashmap.com/plane/tx/N6127J/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Feb-2008 12:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 15-Sep-2017 22:27 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Sep-2017 22:28 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
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