Cessna P206 accident near Mount Vernon, MO
On April 19, 2008, a Cessna P206 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Mount Vernon, MO. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- April 19, 2008
- Place
- Mount Vernon, MO
- Aircraft
- Cessna P206 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 2 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 37.069°N, 93.886°W
- NTSB ID
- 20080429X00561
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On April 19, 2008, approximately 1615 central daylight time, a Cessna P206, N2537X, registered to and operated by Freefall Express Skydiving, Inc., and piloted by a commercial pilot, was destroyed when it struck trees and impacted terrain following an in-flight loss of control near Mount Vernon, Missouri. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The skydiving flight was being conducted under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91 without a flight plan. The pilot and one parachutist were seriously injured, two parachutists were fatally injured, and three parachutists were not injured. The local flight originated from the Mount Vernon Municipal Airport (2MO) approximately 1530. Written statements were received from all four surviving parachutists, and two of them were interviewed in person. The following is a summary of their accounts. As the airplane was climbing to the jump altitude of 10,500 feet agl (above ground level), the stall warning horn sounded intermittently several times. The parachutists said they paid no particular attention to it because they had heard it on previous flights. When the airplane reached the jump altitude, the pilot signaled for one of the parachutists to open the door. When she did, she told the pilot that the airplane had overshot the drop zone by approximately 1 mile. As the pilot started a right turn back towards the drop zone, the stall warning horn sounded again, then the airplane "rolled off on its right wing" and entered a spin. One parachutist wrote, "We were spinning so fast, it was diffi
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed, resulting in an inadvertent stall/spin. Contributing factors in this accident were the entanglement of the parachute in the elevator control system, reducing the pilot's ability to regain control.
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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.
