ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 161236
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| Date: | Friday 4 October 2013 |
| Time: | 13:00 |
| Type: |  Cessna 340A |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N312GC |
| MSN: | 340A0023 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
| Engine model: | Continental TSIO-520 SER |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | West of Paulden, AZ -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Bullhead City, AZ (IFP) |
| Prescott, AZ (PRC) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Witnesses located at a gun club reported observing the airplane make a high-speed, low pass from north to south over the club’s buildings and then maneuver around for another low pass from east to west. During the second low pass, the airplane collided with a radio tower that was about 50 ft tall, and the right wing sheared off about 10 ft of the tower’s top. The tower’s base was triangular shaped, and each of its sides was about 2 ft long. One witness reported that the airplane remained in a straight-and-level attitude until impact with the tower. The airplane then rolled right to an almost inverted position and subsequently impacted trees and terrain about 700 ft southwest of the initial impact point. One witness reported that, about 3 to 4 years before the accident, the pilot, who was a client of the gun club, had “buzzed” over the club and had been told to never do so again. A postaccident examination of the engines and the airframe revealed no evidence of a mechanical malfunction or failure that would have precluded normal operation.
Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain sufficient altitude to clear a radio tower while maneuvering at low altitude and his decision to make a high-speed, low pass over the gun club.
Accident investigation:
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PHOTO: Another image of the wreckage of the plane crash in Paulden, AZ pic.twitter.com/4aPoIIpEhy
— AZ Family (@azfamily) October 4, 2013
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Oct-2013 23:00 | Geno | Added |
| 05-Oct-2013 20:14 | Geno | Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Oct-2013 01:42 | Geno | Updated [Registration, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Oct-2013 08:27 | Alpine Flight | Updated [Cn] |
| 08-Oct-2013 17:50 | harro | Updated [Embed code] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:28 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 28-Feb-2017 07:41 | PiperOnslaught | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 29-Nov-2017 09:17 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
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