Rice GN-1 AIR CAMPIER accident near Paulden, AZ
On May 24, 2010, a Rice GN-1 AIR CAMPIER (airplane) was involved in an accident near Paulden, AZ. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- May 24, 2010
- Place
- Paulden, AZ
- Aircraft
- Rice GN-1 AIR CAMPIER · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 34.867°N, 112.469°W
- NTSB ID
- 20100524X70457
Official records · WPR10LA258
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
On May 24, 2010, about 0930 mountain standard time, an experimental Rice GN-1 Air Camper impacted the terrain near Big Springs Airpark (AZ27), Paulden, Arizona. The airline transport pilot, who was the sole occupant, died of his injuries after being airlifted to Flagstaff Medical Center, and the airplane, which was owned and operated by the pilot, sustained substantial damage to the majority of its structure. The local 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight, which took off from the same location about 20 minutes prior to the accident, was being operated in visual meteorological conditions. No flight plan had been filed. According to witnesses who saw the airplane in a left hand pattern to runway 28 prior to the initiation of the accident sequence, the pilot was doing a series of touch-and-go landings to the dirt airstrip. During one of his approaches, the airplane descended into the terrain about 100 yards north of the threshold of runway 28. None of the witnesses who had earlier noticed the airplane in the traffic pattern actually saw the sequence of events that terminated in the airplane's impact with the terrain. According to air ambulance records, when emergency response personnel arrived at the scene, the pilot stated that he was in the process of landing the airplane and that it crashed short of the runway, but he did not know what had happened to cause the crash. The records noted that the pilot, who had to be extracted from the wreckage, told the emergency personnel that he did not know if he had lost consciousness during the crash. At the scene the
Probable cause
The pilot's loss of airplane control for undetermined reasons while on final approach to land.
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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.
