Conway Philip J Glasair Super II SFT accident near Bay City, WI
On September 6, 2022, a Conway Philip J Glasair Super II SFT (airplane) was involved in an accident near Bay City, WI. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- September 6, 2022
- Place
- Bay City, WI
- Aircraft
- Conway Philip J Glasair Super II SFT · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 44.591°N, 92.501°W
- NTSB ID
- 20220906105876
Official records · ERA22FA399
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn September 6, 2022, at 1325 central daylight time, an experimental, amateur-built Glasair Super II SFT airplane, N11HC, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Bay City, Wisconsin. The flight instructor and a commercial pilot-under-instruction were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. The flight departed from Rochester Regional Airport (RST), Rochester, Minnesota about 1218. Following some air work, the flight proceeded to Red Wing Airport (RGK), Bay City, Wisconsin and entered left traffic for the visual airport traffic pattern to runway 9. According to automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) and GPS data, four circuits of the traffic pattern were flown without touching down and a fifth traffic pattern was initiated. The data indicated that the airplane turned onto the base leg of the airport traffic pattern about 0.5 to 1 mile sooner (tighter) than on the previous approaches (figure 1). The airplane impacted the ground about 1/3 nautical mile west-northwest of the approach end of runway 9. Figure 1: Pattern Work at Red Wing Regional Airport and Wreckage Location The airplane was equipped with a Garmin G3X integrated flight instrument system. The non-volatile memory cards from the flight displays recorded data from the entire accident flight, including engine and systems performance. Speed and altitude information from the G3X revealed that the airplane departed RST, climbed to about 10,000 ft mean sea level (msl), and proceeded to the nort
Probable cause
The continuation of a poorly-flown, unstabilized approach and the flight instructor’s failure to direct a discontinuance of that approach, resulting in a collision with terrain during turn to final.
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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.
