Cessna 170B accident near Edgewater, FL
On April 1, 2017, a Cessna 170B (airplane) was involved in an accident near Edgewater, FL. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- April 1, 2017
- Place
- Edgewater, FL
- Aircraft
- Cessna 170B · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 28.959°N, 80.957°W
- NTSB ID
- 20170401X94926
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn April 1, 2017, about 0846 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 170B, N8082D, and a Grumman American AA-5B, N425AE, were destroyed during an in-flight collision over Edgewater, Florida. The airline transport pilot flying the Cessna and the airline transport pilot flying the Grumman were fatally injured. Both airplanes were owned and operated by their respective pilots as Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 personal flights. No flight plans were filed, and visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The airplanes were part of a recreational formation flight that departed from Spruce Creek Airport (7FL6), Daytona Beach, Florida, about 0839 and were destined for Arthur Dunn Airpark (X21), Titusville, Florida. Three other airplanes were part of the formation flight: a Great Lakes biplane, a Grumman AA-1C (referred to in this report as the Lynx), and an American Champion 8KCAB (referred to in this report as the Super Decathlon). All five pilots participating in the formation flight were members of a pilot group based at 7FL6. On the morning of the accident, the group members were flying to X21 to attend a monthly breakfast event. The five-airplane formation flight took off from 7FL6. The flight leader was flying the biplane, which took off with the accident Grumman in formation first; the accident Cessna and the Lynx took off in formation next followed by the Super Decathlon. The flight initially formed into a five-airplane "V" formation (see figure 1), with the biplane at the apex, the Grumman in the No. 2 position (to th
Probable cause
The Cessna pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the Grumman during the transition to a different formation. Contributing to the accident was the stepped down configuration of the formation flight which was composed of dissimilar aircraft.
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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.
