| Date: | Saturday 30 November 1996 |
| Time: | 13:07 |
| Type: |  Morane Saulnier MS.760B Paris II |
| Owner/operator: | Robert E.J. Morris |
| Registration: | N2TE |
| MSN: | 5 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3334 hours |
| Engine model: | Turbomeca Marboré VI |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 2,1 km NNE of Santa Ana-John Wayne International Airport, CA (SNA) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Santa Ana-John Wayne International Airport, CA (SNA/KSNA) |
| Santa Ana-John Wayne International Airport, CA (SNA/KSNA) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Returned to the airport because the external boarding ladder was still attached to the aircraft. During a tight turn, it rolled inverted and crashed into an industrial building from approximately 500 feet agl. Possible B757 wake turbulence contributed.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's failure to maintain an adequate airspeed margin while maneuvering in a steep banked turn to the landing runway, which resulted in an inadvertent stall/spin. Factors in the accident were: the pilot's inadequate preflight inspection of the aircraft in that he departed with the boarding ladder attached to the aircraft's exterior; the pilot's inadequate in-flight planning in that he flew a traffic pattern so close to the runway that it required excessive bank angles to align the aircraft with the landing runway; and the aircraft's probable encounter with the periphery of a weakened B-757 wake turbulence, which increased the wing's angle of attack beyond the stall point at a critical point during a steep banked turn. "
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
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