Texas Air Ventures Inc COMP AIR 8 accident near Mount Pleasant, SC
On July 19, 2010, a Texas Air Ventures Inc COMP AIR 8 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Mount Pleasant, SC. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- July 19, 2010
- Place
- Mount Pleasant, SC
- Aircraft
- Texas Air Ventures Inc COMP AIR 8 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 32.898°N, 79.783°W
- NTSB ID
- 20100719X92628
Official records · ERA10LA365
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
Air traffic control records
- Washington Automated Flight Service Station Transcript: Transcript (PDF), on ntsb.gov
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On July 19, 2010, about 1400 eastern daylight time, an experimental, amateur-built Texas Air Ventures Comp Air 8, N882X, was substantially damaged when it impacted the ground during an aborted landing at Mt. Pleasant Regional Airport (LRO), Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The certificated commercial pilot was killed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan had been filed for the flight that departed Merritt Island Airport (COI), Merritt Island, Florida, about 1200. The positioning flight was conducted under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. According to witnesses, at the time of the accident, the pilot was flying the first leg of a positioning flight with the intention of delivering the airplane to its owner in Holland, who had purchased the airplane about 3 months prior to the accident. A witness, who worked for a fixed-base-operator at LRO, reported that the airplane was scheduled to overnight at the airport. He also witnessed the airplane on approach to runway 17, a 3,700-foot-long, 75-foot-wide, asphalt runway. The witness stated that the airplane looked "a little wobbly and unstable" before it touched down on the runway. The airplane then traveled off the right side of the runway on to a grass area, and was "swaying side to side" before he heard the engine power-up. The airplane became airborne again, and "went almost straight up, like it was performing an aerial maneuver and appeared to stall and then flipped over upside down and went straight into the ground…" He then observ
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to retrim the airplane and maintain aircraft control during an aborted landing, which resulted in an inadvertent stall. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's lack of experience in the accident airplane make and model.
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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.
