Piper PA-32-260 Crash in Honduras with 5 (Americans and Canadians) Dead
Five foreigners including the pilot died on Saturday when their private plane crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Roatan island, a tourist destination on the Atlantic coast of Honduras, local authorities said. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....0200332a0f.jpg |
Update from CBC News. The pilot was a Canadian living in Honduras. The passengers were US citizens.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hondur...dian-1.5142112 |
Texas-based Cherokee Six N260TM, according to FlightGlobal.
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Aviation-safety.net entry:
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/225218 Photo of that type airplane: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1319741 |
Probably overloaded. The old 260 HP Cherokee Six was not the load lugger that the 300hp could haul.
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Reports suggesting engine failure.
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Originally Posted by Mike Flynn
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Probably overloaded. The old 260 HP Cherokee Six was not the load lugger that the 300hp could haul.
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Photos circulating in PA32 circles suggest that the aircraft had been converted to club seating configuration from the conventional 6 forward facing arrangement. Such a conversion is not authorised for that aircraft.
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Why is that? CG issues or simply nobody ever applied for the STC? Care to elaborate? Link maybe ? |
Originally Posted by 2Donkeys
(Post 10477470)
Photos circulating in PA32 circles suggest that the aircraft had been converted to club seating configuration from the conventional 6 forward facing arrangement. Such a conversion is not authorised for that aircraft.
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Originally Posted by UV
(Post 10478209)
Really? I thought I had flown lots of them in that configuration.
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Accident aircraft had the serial 32-689, you're certainly on the money Dave. Find the serial number convention used confusing, permissible aircraft are S/N 32-7700001 through 32-7800008, how does that equate to 30 aircraft Dave? I assume the first two figures represent year of build.
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Originally Posted by megan
(Post 10479006)
Accident aircraft had the serial 32-689, you're certainly on the money Dave. Find the serial number convention used confusing, permissible aircraft are S/N 32-7700001 through 32-7800008, how does that equate to 30 aircraft Dave? I assume the first two figures represent year of build.
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One lives and learns... I had always assumed the 260 was a short lived production aircraft superseded by the 300. Presume the 260 didn't have the seventh kiddy seat? I know they didn't all have it.
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Originally Posted by treadigraph
(Post 10479192)
One lives and learns... I had always assumed the 260 was a short lived production aircraft superseded by the 300.
Presume the 260 didn't have the seventh kiddy seat? I know they didn't all have it. |
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