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| Date: | Monday 6 April 2020 |
| Time: | 09:20 LT |
| Type: |  Kolb Firestar II |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N90KL |
| MSN: | F1196 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2013 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Daybreak Airport (WA46), WA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Camas, WA (1W1) |
| Camas, WA (1W1) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A witness observed the airplane maneuvering about 200 to 300 ft above the floor of a valley. The airplane was headed southwest then turned south flying above the tree line. The witness reported seeing the airplane make a sharp left turn and that it then stalled and collided with terrain in a near-vertical attitude. Impact damage precluded determination of the preimpact integrity of the airplane's structure or its control systems. The airplane wreckage was sold before investigators were able to perform an examination.
Probable Cause: A loss of control for reasons that could not be determined based on the available information.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB WPR20LA118
FAA register: https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N90KL
Location
Media:
The NTSB is investigating the April 6 crash of an Experimental Amateur-Built Murphy Firestar 2. The NTSB is not traveling to the scene of the crash at this time
— NTSB_Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) April 6, 2020
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Apr-2020 18:46 | gerard57 | Added |
| 06-Apr-2020 19:41 | Captain Adam | Updated [Location, Phase, Source, ] |
| 06-Apr-2020 22:02 | Captain Adam | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 07-Apr-2020 14:41 | RobertMB | Updated [Registration, Cn, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 08-Apr-2020 22:45 | Geno | Updated [Time, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 15-Jul-2022 11:03 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Plane category, Category, Accident report, ] |
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