ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 179205
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| Date: | Tuesday 1 September 2015 |
| Time: | 19:40 |
| Type: |  Extra EA-300L |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N4BM |
| MSN: | 017 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1996 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 587 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming AEIO-540 SER |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | SE Jerome County Airport (KJER), Jerome, ID -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Jerome, ID (JER) |
| Jerome, ID (JER) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The private pilot was conducting a local personal flight. A witness located at the airport reported that he observed the accident airplane take off and then head southwest. He then observed the airplane perform a loop, and he estimated that, at the top of the maneuver, the airplane was about 1,500 ft above ground level. As the airplane began leveling off at the bottom of the loop, it descended out of the witness’s line of sight behind a building. The pilot reported that he did not recall anything about the flight.
Postaccident examination of the recovered wreckage did not reveal any preexisting mechanical malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation. Wreckage and impact signatures were consistent with a high-energy, low-angle impact with terrain. It is likely that the pilot did not properly gauge the airplane’s distance from terrain while conducting the low-altitude aerobatic maneuver and failed to level off in time to avoid impacting terrain.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from terrain while conducting a low-altitude aerobatic maneuver.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
FAA register: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=4BM
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 11 June 1994 | OY-CJF | Pøl |  |
w/o |
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-Sep-2015 04:46 | Geno | Added |
| 02-Sep-2015 13:50 | Alpine Flight | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn] |
| 03-Sep-2015 18:05 | Geno | Updated [Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 19-Sep-2015 00:50 | Geno | Updated [Aircraft type, Nature, Departure airport, Source] |
| 22-May-2016 16:26 | Aerossurance | Updated [Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 22-May-2016 16:26 | Aerossurance | Updated [Phase] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:30 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 01-Dec-2017 15:26 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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