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Re: Fat Cat Two

Posted by John H on Sat Nov 01, 2003 09:17:44 PM

In reply top Re: Fat Cat Two posted by Jim Church on Sat Nov 01, 2003 06:36:59 PM

Doug Lacey's was the one that crashed in the lake.....Sept 29, 1990 killing 8 people. What a senseless and needless accident. This airplane was in now way related to the Fat Cat airplanes. So you are telling me they also lost Fat Cat Too????? (Lacey accident below)

JH

NTSB Identification: LAX90FA336 . The docket is stored on NTSB microfiche number 45516.
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Saturday, September 29, 1990 in LAKEPORT, CA
Probable Cause Approval Date: 4/26/93
Aircraft: LOCKHEED PV-2, registration: N7250C
Injuries: 8 Fatal.
THE AIRPLANE WAS OBSERVED MAKING SEVERAL LOW PASSES, WITH ITS SMOKE GENERATORS OPERATING, OVER SEAPLANES ANCHORED IN A LAKE. THE LAST PASS WAS REPORTEDLY AT AN ALTITUDE LESS THAN 50 FT, AND THEN THE AIRPLANE WAS OBSERVED ENTERING AN ABNORMALLY STEEP CLIMB, FOLLOWED BY A NEAR VERTICAL NOSE-DOWN ATTITUDE TO IMPACT. A VIDEO TAPE SHOWS THAT BOTH PROPELLERS WERE TURNING. THE PILOT HAD RECEIVED HIS MULTI-ENGINE RATING IN A BEECH 76 ON 3/6/90, AND HIS TYPE RATING IN THE AIRPLANE 3/28/90.

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:

THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED DURING A PULL-UP FROM A LOW PASS. FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE PILOT'S POOR JUDGEMENT IN BUZZING THE SEAPLANES WHICH RESULTED IN INSUFFICIENT ALTITUDE TO RECOVER FROM THE STALL, AND THE PILOT'S INEXPERIENCE IN THE AIRPLANE.

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