ASI’s "What Went Wrong" article series explores general aviation accidents and lessons that can be learned from them to help pilots avoid making similar mistakes.
It’s after dusk on November 1, 2020. As night falls, the weather turns windy with heavy, wet snow falling. A deer hunter is perched in his tree stand, which is located about two miles from the approach end of Runway 25 at the Chautauqua County/Jamestown Airport (JHW) in Jamestown, New York.
It’s 3:58 p.m. local time, Monday, October 26, 2020, near Lubbock, Texas. A small airplane emerges below the clouds traveling low to the ground through the freezing mist
It’s the evening of June 9, 2020, and the pilot of a Zenair 601HDS, N6402X, is out for a solo flight in the Phoenix, Arizona, area from Deer Valley Airport (DVT) to the Ak-Chin Regional Airport (A39), 43 nautical miles to the south.
It was just before 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 13, 2022, when the pilot of N79NX—a Pilatus PC–12—prepared to depart Hyde County Airport (7W6) in Engelhart, North Carolina, for a short flight to Michael J. Smith Field Airport (MRH) in Beaufort, North Carolina.
It’s the night of September 27, 2023, around 8:30 p.m., and a student in private pilot training is preflighting a Piper PA–28 Warrior in preparation for a round trip VFR night cross-country between Owensboro/Daviess County Regional Airport (OWB) and Bowling Green-Woodhurst Airport (BWG) in Kentucky.
Vortex ring state. It sounds like some frightening space that Han Solo would avoid to keep the Millennium Falcon from getting sucked down into the Death Star.
An experienced Beechcraft King Air pilot lined up on Runway 19 at Rockford, Illinois (RFD), for a 40-nautical-mile trip home to Du Page, Illinois (DPA), after maintenance work on the airplane.
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