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On 21 May 2021, only 2 days after Annual Inspection completed, Piper PA31 Navajo Crashes Shortly After Take Off from Myrtle Beach Airport,(KMYR) South Carolina.
NEWS COVERAGE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/_l3HpNiPk7s
NTSB’s Preliminary Accident Report:
https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/ ... 103126/pdf
NTSB discovered that the elevator trim tab was installed upside down and reversed after being fully disassembled during the course of Aircraft’s Annual Inspection which was completed only 2 days prior to the accident. If true, that would cause the aircraft to do the exact opposite of what the pilot expected from that critical system. Among other things, the aircrafts handling characteristics would likely cause confusion for the best of pilots.
The airplane was piloted by an experienced American Airlines Airbus Captain. The pilot attempted to circle and land in the departure airport, but crashed 2.5 miles Northwest of the airport. According to Flight Aware, the aircraft was airborne approximately 2 minutes,
FLIGHT AWARE: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N575BC
The pilot, who was the sole occupant of the aircraft was fatally injured during the impact and the post impact fire.
Supplementary info: http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2021/05/f ... -2021.html
This is not the first and won’t be last. Be very suspicious of an aircraft which recently had maintenance done.
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VIDEO: 2 days after Annual, Piper Navajo Crashes Shortly After Take Off, Myrtle Beach South Carolina, 21 May 2021
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VIDEO: 2 days after Annual, Piper Navajo Crashes Shortly After Take Off, Myrtle Beach South Carolina, 21 May 2021
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Re: VIDEO: 2 days after Annual, Piper Navajo Crashes Shortly After Take Off, Myrtle Beach South Carolina, 21 May 2021
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UPDATE:
NTSB’s Preliminary Accident Report:
https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/ ... 103126/pdf
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UPDATE:
NTSB’s Preliminary Accident Report:
https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/ ... 103126/pdf
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Challener’s Rules of Engagement:
Challenger shall not engage those who lack common sense, Intelligence OR those who bring forward id*otic assertions
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Re: VIDEO: 2 days after Annual, Piper Navajo Crashes Shortly After Take Off, Myrtle Beach South Carolina, 21 May 2021
Trim tab operation should be checked for proper direction of operation before the first flight of the day in any small aircraft that one is not extremely familiar with(such as rentals). The Navajo is a bigger aircraft and more difficult to do this, but it is imperative on aircraft of any size to check for proper direction of tab movement after any maintenance where it could have been affected.
