Avions Mudry Et Cie CAP 10B accident near Bunnell, FL
On May 27, 2000, an Avions Mudry Et Cie CAP 10B (airplane) was involved in an accident near Bunnell, FL. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- May 27, 2000
- Place
- Bunnell, FL
- Aircraft
- Avions Mudry Et Cie CAP 10B · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 29.459°N, 81.250°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001212X21058
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On May 27, 2000, about 1045 eastern daylight time, two Avions Mudry CAP-10B's, N82BW and N86KB, registered to and operated by French Connection Airshows, Inc. as a Title 14 CFR Part 91 air show formation audio/videotaped promotion flight, collided in flight and crashed on the Flagler County Airport, Bunnell, Florida. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. Both aircraft were destroyed and the CFI-rated lead pilot and commercially-rated wingman sustained fatal injuries. The formation flight departed the same airport about 17 minutes before the accident. According to eyewitnesses, including the ground-based photography crew who had been contracted to record audio/videotape of the formation flight, and confirmed by examination of the same tape, the team had performed a two-abreast, (wingman on lead's right wing) formation hammerhead stall from flight paths in a vertical plane 90-degrees to the horizon. The formation stall recovery was performed by each airplane simultaneously yawing 180-degrees about its own yaw axis such that the wingman's position transferred to the lead's left wing, while they remained in the same plane, 90-degrees to the horizon, nose down. The maneuver terminated with the wingman rolling 180-degrees from the two-abreast formation while the formation was in its downward flight path, (essentially belly-to-belly) and simultaneous pullouts that resulted in a formation split-up into horizontal flight paths 180 degrees apart. Following two satisfactory formation hammerhead stalls, the collision occurred during
Probable cause
A midair collision due to the failure of the wingman to maintain proper clearance between his aircraft and the lead aircraft while conducting formation aerobatics and the subsequent loss of control of both aircraft resulting in an uncontrolled descent and collision of both aircraft with the terrain. A factor in the accident was the faulty design of the belly-to-belly maneuver that required the win
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
