American Champion Aircraft Cor 7GCBC accident near Midlothian, TX
On July 31, 2010, an American Champion Aircraft Cor 7GCBC (airplane) was involved in an accident near Midlothian, TX. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- July 31, 2010
- Place
- Midlothian, TX
- Aircraft
- American Champion Aircraft Cor 7GCBC · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 32.439°N, 96.908°W
- NTSB ID
- 20100730X32315
Official records · CEN10FA448
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On July 30, 2010, about 2000 central daylight time, an American Champion Aircraft Corp., 7GCBC, N5027G, registered to private individuals and operated by Big Q Aviation, impacted terrain in the vicinity of Mid-Way Regional Airport (JWY), Midlothian, Texas. The certified flight instructor (CFI) and student pilot were fatally injured. The airplane was substantially damaged. Visual meteorological conditions (VMC) prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. The flight originated from JWY about 1955. The CFI and student pilot, were doing local area traffic pattern flights prior to departing the area for a night cross country flight instructional flight. Two witnesses driving eastbound on the highway west of the impact location, observed the southbound airplane initiating a left hand turn below 250 feet above ground level (AGL). One of the witnesses stated, the airplane was going very slow when the airplane completed the turn, the nose dropped down and the airplane entered a shallow dive and recovered to climb up to about 300 feet AGL. The airplane then entered another flat turn. During the turn, the airplane turned more sharply and started to dive again and went into a wings level nose down attitude. The witnesses were then less than a half-mile from the impact location when the airplane pulled up sharply, and the airplane entered an almost vertical spiral into the ground. Another witness about 1,500 feet northeast from the impact location observed the airplane flying much lower than normal.
Probable cause
The flight instructor’s incapacitation due to preexisting but unrecognized coronary disease, and the student pilot’s distraction and inability to recover the airplane from a stall/spin at low altitude.
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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.
