Lancair LC-41-550FG accident near Warner Springs, CA
On October 17, 2005, a Lancair LC-41-550FG (airplane) was involved in an accident near Warner Springs, CA. 3 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- October 17, 2005
- Place
- Warner Springs, CA
- Aircraft
- Lancair LC-41-550FG · Airplane
- Injuries
- 3 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 33.395°N, 116.606°W
- NTSB ID
- 20051026X01740
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On October 17, 2005, at 1038 Pacific daylight time (PDT), a Lancair LC-41-550FG, N285JB, collided with mountainous terrain 6 miles north of Warner Springs, California. The airplane was operated by JB Lauchner Aviation LLC under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91. The airline transport pilot, private pilot, and single passenger were fatally injured. The airplane was destroyed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and a flight plan had not been filed. The personal cross-country flight originated at Gillespie Field, San Diego, California, at 1021, with a destination of Scottsdale, Arizona. Flight track data recorded from the onboard global positioning system (GPS) was extracted from the onboard multifunctional display (MFD) compact flash memory card that was recovered from the wreckage. The flight data file starts at time 1712:48 UTC (coordinated universal time, 1012:48 PDT); the data is captured at 6-second intervals and is written to the memory card once per minute. Examination of the data revealed that engine rpm increases to 2,500 at 1021:30 PDT and remained in that range for the remainder of the data file. The track departs Gillespie Field and turns east, then northeast over Lake Jennings, and climbs to a pressure altitude of 5,000 feet. The track continues northeast over San Diego Country Estates. When over Warner Springs the track increases altitude to 6,475 feet then it decreases to 5,996 feet. The last recorded time is 1038:00, at an altitude of 5,996 feet, 1.8 miles southwest of the accident site. Radar data was available to fill in the 1.8-mile
Probable cause
The flight crew's failure to maintain adequate terrain clearance and their decision to continue flight into known adverse weather conditions. Contributing to the accident was overcast conditions, and terrain obscuration. A finding of the investigation is that the flight crew may have improperly used the navigation equipment, which had a graphical moving map display capability, to guide the airplan
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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.
