Cessna 337 N2489S

Summary

On 8 April 2009 at about 19:39 local time, a Cessna 337 registered N2489S, operated by State of Wisconsin/DNR, was involved in an accident near Pittsville, Wisconsin, United States. One person was on board and one died. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

8 April 2009 at 19:39

Classification

Accident

Location

Pittsville, Wisconsin, United States

Coordinates

44.4501, -90.1303

Aircraft

Cessna 337

Registration

N2489S

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

State of Wisconsin/DNR

Operating rule

Public Use

Purpose of flight

Fire Fighting

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Necedah → Pittsville

Aircraft damage

Not recorded

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN09GA242

1 person died.

The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed which resulted in an aerodynamic stall at a low altitude.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The public-use airplane was being operated as a single-pilot aerial observation aircraft when it was responding to a ground fire. The fire originated from a garbage fire at a house that was adjacent to a wooded area. The wooded area was at the northern edge of a fallow agricultural field that the airplane was seen initially flying over on a southerly heading at an altitude of about 100 feet above the trees. The airplane then turned towards a northerly heading and descended to an altitude of about 35 feet above the field. The airplane engine noise then increased which was then followed by a wing drop consistent with an aerodynamic stall as it approached the tree line. Examination of the wreckage revealed no anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.