Piper PA-32RT-300T accident near Gulfport, MS
On March 3, 2001, a Piper PA-32RT-300T (airplane) was involved in an accident near Gulfport, MS. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- March 3, 2001
- Place
- Gulfport, MS
- Aircraft
- Piper PA-32RT-300T · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 31.192°N, 89.283°W
- NTSB ID
- 20010307X00554
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On March 3, 2001, about 1422 central standard time, a Piper PA-32RT-300T, N911PL, registered to S. and E. Aviation, Inc., operating as a Title 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight, crashed offshore near Gulfport, Mississippi. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed, and a visual flight rules, (VFR) flight plan had been filed. The airplane was destroyed and the private-rated pilot, the sole occupant, is presumed to have received fatal injuries. The flight departed Tampa International Airport, Tampa, Florida, for Beaumont/Port Arthur, Texas, about 1208 eastern standard time. According to a transcript of a telephone conversation that occurred between 1002 and 1017 on March 3, 2001, between the St. Petersburg, Florida, FAA Automated Flight Service Station, (AFSS), and a person representing N911PL, the call was made to file a VFR flight plan and obtain a briefing on the en route and destination conditions and weather from Tampa to Beaumont, via Tallahassee, Mobile, and New Orleans, departing about noon with an en route flight time of about 3 hours 30 minutes. After the flight plan data was given to the AFSS, the briefer provided a briefing which dealt with the existing convective activity and frontal position, including current severe thunderstorm watches, convective SIGMETs, (a weather advisory issued concerning weather significant to the safety of all aircraft) and current weather radar identified thunderstorms. These thunderstorms existed in lines and clusters from the Florida panhandle, across the Mobile area, north of Gulfport, to New Orleans. The route o
Probable cause
the pilot's attempted flight into known adverse weather, resulting in an in flight loss of control, exceedance of design limits of the aircraft, and wing separation prior to collision with water.
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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.
