ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 213403
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| Date: | Tuesday 17 July 2018 |
| Time: | 12:59 |
| Type: |  Cessna 172N Skyhawk |
| Owner/operator: | Dean International Inc |
| Registration: | N6428D |
| MSN: | 17272794 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Everglades, near Miami Executive Airport (TMB/KTMB), FL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Immokalee Airport, FL (IMM/KIMM) |
| Miami Executive Airport, FL (TMB/KTMB) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A low-wing multiengine airplane (Piper PA-34-200 Seneca, N16281) departed the airport on an evaluation flight in the local training area with a commercial pilot candidate and designated pilot examiner onboard. The student pilot and a flight instructor onboard a high-wing airplane (Cessna 172N, N6428D) were returning to the same airport on a cross-country instructional flight. About 6 minutes after the low-wing airplane departed, the airplanes suffered a mid-air collision, nearly straight-on about 1,500 ft mean sea level and 9 miles northwest of the airport. At the time, the low-wing airplane was clear of the Class D airspace and no longer communicating with air traffic control (ATC). One of the pilots in the high-wing airplane had contacted ATC just before the collision. The controller acknowledged the transmission and issued a traffic advisory, but no further communications were received. Neither airplane was equipped with a traffic information system, nor were they required to be.
An aircraft performance and cockpit visibility study revealed that both airplanes would have remained relatively small, slow-moving objects in each other's windows until about 12 seconds before the collision, and subsequently grown in size suddenly; however, it is likely that none of the pilots saw the other airplane given that radar data does not indicate that either airplane performed evasive maneuvers to avoid the collision No preimpact mechanical malfunctions were identified with either airplane. Toxicology testing identified low levels of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and metabolites in the high-wing flight instructor's blood and urine. Their presence indicates that the instructor had used marijuana at some time before the accident, but it is unlikely that the psychoactive effects of THC remained or contributed to the accident.
Probable Cause: The failure of both pilots in both airplanes to see and avoid the other airplane as they converged nearly head-on at the same altitude.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
FAA register: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=6428D
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Photos: NTSB
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Jul-2018 23:17 | Geno | Added |
| 18-Jul-2018 01:48 | Geno | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Jul-2018 07:54 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Time, Source, Embed code] |
| 18-Jul-2018 08:00 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Embed code] |
| 18-Jul-2018 19:45 | Geno | Updated [Narrative] |
| 12-Nov-2019 17:48 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, Accident report, ] |
| 12-Nov-2019 19:39 | harro | Updated [Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 12-Nov-2019 19:40 | harro | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport] |
| 20-May-2022 20:06 | Captain Adam | Updated [Location, Source, Embed code, Category, Photo] |
| 20-May-2022 20:06 | Captain Adam | Updated [Photo] |
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