ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 193813
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| Date: | Friday 24 February 2017 |
| Time: | 06:39 |
| Type: |  Cirrus SR20 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N255JB |
| MSN: | 1059 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2000 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 1985 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental IO-360 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | SW of Spruce Creek Airport (7FL6), Daytona Beach, FL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Daytona Beach, FL (7FL6) |
| Lumberton, NC (LBT) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The instrument-rated private pilot had filed an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan for the cross-country flight, but intended to depart under visual flight rules conditions and open his IFR flight plan shortly after takeoff. He stated that, during the preflight inspection, he did not see any low clouds and was able to see stars above him. The airplane departed shortly before sunrise, and the pilot stated that, while retracting the flaps after takeoff, he encountered low-level fog about 300 ft agl and the airplane entered instrument meteorological conditions. The pilot made a right turn to avoid the final approach course to the opposite runway, then saw a tree and attempted to avoid impacting it; he then recalled waking up in the airplane on the ground. Weather conditions near the accident site about the time of the accident included scattered clouds at 500 ft and a visibility of 6 miles in mist. The series of events described by the pilot was consistent with a loss of control due to spatial disorientation, likely due to the unexpected loss of visibility during the initial climb.
Probable Cause: The pilot's inadvertent encounter with instrument meteorological conditions (fog) during initial climb, which resulted in a loss of control due to spatial disorientation.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N255JB/history/20170224/1130Z/7FL6/KLBT
FAA register: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N255JB
Location
Images:
Photo: NTSB
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Feb-2017 00:21 | Geno | Added |
| 25-Feb-2017 00:35 | Geno | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Destination airport, Source] |
| 11-Nov-2018 08:32 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Operator, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, Accident report, ] |
| 11-Nov-2018 09:57 | harro | Updated [Source, Narrative, Photo] |
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