Oconnor Paul A ULTIMATE AERO 10-200 N827D
18 April 2014 · Saint Albans, Vermont, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 18 April 2014 at about 16:10 local time, a Oconnor Paul A ULTIMATE AERO 10-200 registered N827D was involved in an accident near Saint Albans, Vermont, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.
The record
- Date
- at 16:10
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Saint Albans, Vermont, United States
- Nearest airport
- Franklin County State Airport (FSO)
- Coordinates
- 44.9461, -73.1136
- Aircraft
- Oconnor Paul A ULTIMATE AERO 10-200
- Registration
- N827D
- Category
- Airplane
- Year built
- 2010
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Not recorded
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Personal
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Highgate → Highgate
- Aircraft damage
- Destroyed
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- ERA14LA202
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Probable cause
The propeller blade’s failure due to fatigue cracks that initiated from pitch change pin attachment holes that had been drilled too deep during manufacture.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
The commercial pilot was conducting a local personal flight in his experimental amateur-built aerobatic airplane. The pilot reported that, about 10 minutes after takeoff and while climbing to 3,000 ft mean sea level, there was a sudden loud bang/shudder. The canopy then shattered, the engine experienced a total loss of power, and the airplane entered a spin that the pilot could not arrest. The pilot subsequently decided to egress the airplane via parachute. The airplane subsequently struck terrain and was consumed by a postimpact fire. Examination of the propeller revealed that one of the two propeller blades had separated from the two-bladed, constant-speed propeller's hub. The propeller blade had fractured due to fatigue cracks that initiated from pitch change pin attachment holes that were drilled too deep during manufacture. Subsequent to the accident, the manufacturer recognized that the hole depth varied and instituted quality control measures. At the time of the accident, the propeller had been operated for about 260 hours.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
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