Champion 7ECA N2561G

Summary

On 5 October 2019 at about 20:09 local time, a Champion 7ECA registered N2561G, operated by N3542w, was involved in an accident near Pembroke Pines, Florida, United States. 2 people were on board and 2 were seriously injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

5 October 2019 at 20:09

Classification

Accident

Location

Pembroke Pines, Florida, United States

Coordinates

25.9994, -80.4683

Aircraft

Champion 7ECA

Registration

N2561G

Category

Airplane

Year built

1967

Engines

1

Operator

N3542w

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Hollywood → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ERA20FA003

2 people were seriously injured.

The pilot’s failure to relinquish the airplane controls to the instructor during a power-off stall maneuver, which prevented the instructor’s recovering from the stall.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

During a training flight, the pilot receiving instruction “froze on the controls” during a demonstration of a power-off stall. He did not respond to the flight instructor’s commands to release the controls, and the instructor was unable to overpower the pilot’s control inputs. The airplane remained in a stall condition, descended, impacted marshland, and sustained substantial damage to the wings and forward fuselage. The airplane’s altitude at the start of the descent was not captured by radar data; however, the airplane had previously been flying at altitudes of 100 to 500 ft mean sea level in the practice area about 1.5 minutes before radar altitude data was lost.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.