Return-Path: Received: from marvkaye.olsusa.com ([205.245.9.131]) by truman.olsusa.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.1 release 219 ID# 0-52269U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id com for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 16:07:34 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19990519161246.00aaed00@olsusa.com> Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 16:12:46 -0400 To: lancair.list@olsusa.com From: Marvin Kaye Subject: Dreamcatcher accident X-Mailing-List: lancair.list@olsusa.com Mime-Version: 1.0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> << Lancair Builders' Mail List >> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> Reprinted from the NTSB website (http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/ATL/99A083.htm) NTSB Identification: ATL99LA083 Accident occurred MAY-11-99 at TALLESSEE, AL Aircraft: Michael W. Campbell LANCAIR 320, registration: N6111 Injuries: 1 Fatal. This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. On May 11, 1999, at 1000 central daylight time, a Campbell Lancair 320, N6111, collided with a tree and the ground during climbout from the Reeves Airport in Tallessee, Alabama. The personal flight was operated by the pilot under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91 with no flight plan filed. Visual weather conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The commercial pilot was fatally injured, and the airplane sustained substantial damage. The local flight departed Tallessee, Alabama, at 0959. According to a friend of the pilot, located at the Reeves Airport at the time of the accident, the purpose of the flight was to demonstrate a high speed, low altitude, pass over the runway. The pilot's friend reported that, during climbout there was a short radio conversation with the pilot followed by an abrupt end to the conversation. At this point, the airplane entered a nose-up attitude followed by a nose-low attitude. The airplane was located in a wooded area with the nose section still in a nose-low attitude. A tree in the immediate vicinity of the impact point was damaged. The witness also reported that the engine continued to run throughout the sequence of flight events. An on-site investigation of the accident was completed. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LML homepage: http://www.olsusa.com/Users/Mkaye/maillist.html