Texas Air Ventures COMP AIR 8 N882X

Summary

On 19 July 2010 at about 18:00 local time, a Texas Air Ventures COMP AIR 8 registered N882X, operated by BOGCO Aviation Inc., was involved in an accident near Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

19 July 2010 at 18:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States

Nearest airport

Mt. Pleasant (LRO)

Coordinates

32.8978, -79.7828

Aircraft

Texas Air Ventures COMP AIR 8

Registration

N882X

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

BOGCO Aviation Inc.

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Positioning

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Merritt Island → Mount Pleasant

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ERA10LA365

1 person died.

The pilot's failure to retrim the airplane and maintain aircraft control during an aborted landing, which resulted in an inadvertent stall. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's lack of experience in the accident airplane make and model.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot was conducting the first leg of a positioning flight in an experimental, amateur built, tail-wheel turboprop airplane. During landing, the airplane touched down to the right of the runway centerline and departed the right side of the runway. The pilot then added engine power to attempt an aborted landing. The airplane lifted off the runway, pitched up at a steep angle, stalled, and impacted the ground. Examination of the wreckage did not reveal any mechanical malfunctions; however, a postcrash fire consumed the majority of the wreckage. The airplane's pitch trim actuator was observed in the landing position, which was the full nose-up position and would have resulted in a steep nose-up attitude during climb-out, if not corrected by the pilot. The pilot had accumulated about 1,930 hours of total flight experience; however, he only had 5 total hours in the same make and model as the accident airplane.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.