ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 190991
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| Date: | Saturday 29 October 2016 |
| Time: | 14:45 |
| Type: |  Cessna 172 Skyhawk |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N6353E |
| MSN: | 46453 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1959 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 13064 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental O-300-D12 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Friday Creek, Matanuska-Susitna County, AK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Wasilla, AK (IYS) |
| Wasilla, AK (IYS) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The student pilot was flying the airplane over a remote river valley as his friends and relatives were driving their all-terrain vehicles in the valley. The pilot executed a touch-and-go landing on a gravel bar, and, just after takeoff, the airplane entered a steep climb and turned to the left. During the left turn, the wings of the airplane rolled perpendicular to the ground, and it descended in a near-vertical, nose-down attitude to ground impact. A postaccident examination of the airframe and engine revealed no evidence of mechanical malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation. The flight profile was consistent with the pilot exceeding the airplane's critical angle of attack, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and loss of control at an altitude too low to allow for recovery.
Probable Cause: The student pilot's exceedance of the airplane's critical angle of attack during a steep climbing turn following a touch-and-go landing, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall at too low of an altitude to recover.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
FAA register: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N6353E
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Photo: NTSB
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Oct-2016 08:52 | harro | Added |
| 30-Oct-2016 09:00 | harro | Updated [Embed code] |
| 30-Oct-2016 19:21 | Anon. | Updated [Damage] |
| 31-Oct-2016 21:15 | Geno | Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Sep-2018 17:26 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, Accident report, ] |
| 09-Sep-2018 17:48 | harro | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 09-Sep-2018 17:50 | harro | Updated [Photo] |
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