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| Date: | Thursday 31 May 2018 |
| Time: | 19:20 |
| Type: |  Cirrus SR22 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N670SR |
| MSN: | 2863 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2007 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 875 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental IO-550-N |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Midland Int’l Air and Space Port Airport (KMAF), Midland, TX -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Midland International Air and Space Port, TX (MAF/KMAF) |
| Ruidoso-Sierra Blanca Regional Airport, NM (RUI/KSRR) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The student pilot and passenger were departing on a personal flight in the student pilot's airplane. Witnesses saw the airplane climb to about 200 ft above the runway at a slow airspeed, stall, and descend in a right turn until impact with terrain. According to the pilot's wife, he regularly flew the airplane, often with passengers. No pilot logbooks or records were found and the student's flight experience could not be determined. Examination of the airplane revealed no mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation. Given the atmospheric conditions, the density altitude about the time of the accident was 6,660 ft mean sea level (msl).
Probable Cause: An inadvertent stall, resulting in an uncontrollable descent and impact with terrain. Contributing to the accident was the high density altitude.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
FAA register: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=670SR
https://flightaware.com/photos/view/186436-aaad653e7bb92f31afda7e15474df127c3d1dd6d/aircrafttype/SR22
Location
Images:
Photo: NTSB
Media:
Small plane crashes at Midland International Airport, 2 on board https://t.co/jpXDusqlU3 pic.twitter.com/OeRb9AqSIE
— WBRC FOX6 News (@WBRCnews) 1 juin 2018
MHS Quarterback remembered after fatal Cirrus SR-22 plane crash, Midland, TX, USA. Father John Michael Cooper and his son Gavyn Cooper were flying in his father’s plane when it went down.https://t.co/ywaK83zr2g pic.twitter.com/f3U1WagLyx
— Planes Of Legend (@PlanesOfLegend) 1 juin 2018
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Jun-2018 06:38 | gerard57 | Added |
| 01-Jun-2018 14:35 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Time, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 01-Jun-2018 18:30 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Embed code, ] |
| 01-Jun-2018 21:04 | Geno | Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, ] |
| 01-Jun-2018 23:33 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Embed code, ] |
| 11-Nov-2019 17:43 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, Accident report, ] |
| 11-Nov-2019 18:14 | harro | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative, Photo, ] |
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