Fatal accident... (pilot falls to death before emergency landing)
(29/July/2022)
- United States of America [emoji631] :
A Spore Ltd LLC/Rampart Aviation LLC CASA CN 212-200 Aviocar twin engine plane, registration N497CA, sustained unknown damage when it was involved in an accident at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU/KRDU), Morrisville, North Carolina.
The captain sustained minor injuries, and first officer was fatally injured.
Preliminary information indicates that the aircraft (call sign Shady 02) was used for civilian contracted aircraft for training military troop jumpers. Review of the flight data shows that the crew were conducting flight maneuvers, the aircraft landed hard at Raeford West Airport, and the crew decided to divert to RDU after suffering problems with the fixed right-hand landing gear (lost the wheel).
What happened after that remains unclear, multiple news sites reported that the co-pilot, aged 23, "jumped" from the plane. On going speculation on aviation blogs suggests the pilot fell from the airplane while trying to inspect the damage. Review of the accident photos (photo number 2 on this post) shows that the tail gate was open.
The captain managed to reach RDU, made a low pass, circled around and landed, during the landing sequence, the aircraft veered to the right and sustained unspecified damage.
The NTSB defines an aviation accident as the following:
"Aircraft accident means an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage."
- ATC recording:
https://archive.liveatc.net/kfay/KFAY1-App-Dep-Jul-29-2022-1800Z.mp3
- Flightaware:
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N497CA/history/20220729/1710Z/NR20/KRDU
- ADS-B:
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?ica...m=15.8&showTrace=2022-07-29&leg=4&trackLabels
- Photos via various media sources
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