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cavuman1

28th Dec 2019 16:24

Private Aircraft Down in Lafayette Louisiana

Not much information yet - breaking news: STORY

- Ed

treadigraph

28th Dec 2019 16:37

Piper Cheyenne apparently.

Airbubba

28th Dec 2019 17:08

Appears to be N42CV, a 1980 PA-31T LFT-PDK.

From FlightAware:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....82626cef20.jpg

MarkerInbound

28th Dec 2019 17:43

Since someone is bound to ask

Code:

KLFT 281551Z 15006KT 3/4SM BR VV002 20/19 A2997 RMK AO2 ACFT MISHAP

Code:

KLFT 281453Z 12005KT 3/4SM BR VV002 19/19 A2997 RMK AO2 SLP146 T01940189 53011

GordonR_Cape

28th Dec 2019 18:17

Significant impact, apparently near the post office: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50935208

tdracer

28th Dec 2019 20:07

Reported five fatalities. The aircraft was on its way to Atlanta for the College Football Championship semi-final game - and that one of the fatalities was the daughter-in-law of one of the LSU coaches.
Sad indeed :(

Drc40

28th Dec 2019 20:52

Quite a bit of info here including comments from a witness about fog.

katc.com/news/front-range/lafayette/plane-crashes-along-feu-follet-road

chopper2004

28th Dec 2019 23:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by tdracer (Post 10649227)

https://www.si.com/college/2019/12/2...ZaobTzVy93v9A4

Found this on friends FB as his sister is contender for the Miss Mississippi and hence they have connections with Miss Louisiana of which the aforementioned victim Carly is the daughter.

RIP

ATB

Chgoquad

9th Jan 2022 02:52

I never saw any follow up on this and googled today to see if there was ever an explanation... according to the below article something with the propellers? Can someone explain from the article below what it may have been?

ktbs (DOT) com/news/propeller-problem-caused-2019-plane-crash-that-killed-carley-mccord-ensminger-report-suggests/article_24634444-1727-11ec-8534-07f0a8414123.html

DaveReidUK

9th Jan 2022 09:15

Aviation Investigation - 29 Docket Items - CEN20MA044 - Description: N42CV, Piper PA 31T

See Item 21 (caution - long report)

Chgoquad

10th Jan 2022 02:16

Okay - so I'm not a pilot or an engineer - it seems like there was an issue with the propeller that caused it to rotate slower than it should have to maintain airspeed? that report was way over my head in technical detail :)

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