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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.

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