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| Date: | Friday 16 August 2024 |
| Time: | 07:15 |
| Type: |  Piper J3C-65 Cub |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N21811 |
| MSN: | 2587 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Mooresburg, TN -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Mooresburg, TN (private) |
| Mooresburg, TN (private) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot departed from a private airstrip and overflew his property. The airplane subsequently impacted a barn adjacent to the airstrip. The airplane sustained substantial damage, and the fuselage was mostly consumed by the postimpact fire that ensued. The pilot was fatally injured. An autopsy of the pilot was performed by the William L. Jenkins Forensic Center, Johnson City, Tennessee. The autopsy report listed the cause of death as blunt force injuries and the manner of death as suicide.
Probable Cause: The pilot’s intentional flight into a building as an act of suicide.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.radionwtn.com/2024/08/16/dirt-track-legend-scott-bloomquist-dies-in-plane-crash/
https://www.floracing.com/articles/12784917-dirt-track-legend-scott-bloomquist-killed-in-plane-crash
https://www.therogersvillereview.com/article_7939d8f6-5bcc-11ef-9df7-c731e3187521.html
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/plane-crash-hawkins-county/51-7df6258b-0c44-4e42-86c6-dac9ed9e7e7b
https://www.speedsport.com/dirt-late-models/other-dirt-series/scott-bloomquist-dies-in-plane-crash/
https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=194939
https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=21811
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Images:
Photo: NTSB
Photo: NTSB
Photo: NTSB
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— ?SStar (@politiclybroken) August 16, 2024
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Aug-2024 14:08 | nhofmann54 | Added |
| 16-Aug-2024 14:10 | ASN | Updated [Aircraft type, Total occupants, Source, ] |
| 16-Aug-2024 14:12 | ASN | Updated [Time, Narrative, Category, ] |
| 16-Aug-2024 15:35 | Anon. | Updated [Aircraft type, ] |
| 16-Aug-2024 16:22 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Nature, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 17-Aug-2024 08:38 | Captain Adam | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 17-Aug-2024 11:11 | RobertMB | Updated [Embed code, Category, ] |
| 24-Oct-2024 18:12 | Captain Adam | Updated [Time, Phase, Source, Embed code, Accident report, ] |
| 05-Jun-2025 23:57 | Captain Adam | Updated [Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Photo, ] |
| 05-Jun-2025 23:59 | Captain Adam | Updated [Photo, ] |
| 05-Jun-2025 23:59 | Captain Adam | Updated [Photo, ] |
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