Private Aircraft Down in Lafayette Louisiana

[cavuman1]

Not much information yet - breaking news: STORY (https://www.foxnews.com/us/plane-with-6-people-on-board-crashes-in-lafayette-near-walmart)

- Ed

[treadigraph]

Piper Cheyenne apparently.

[Airbubba]

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

From FlightAware:


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1140x755/retriever_237b8e2b65a7de76b4f978a997dca882626cef20.jpg

[MarkerInbound]

Since someone is bound to ask

KLFT 281551Z 15006KT 3/4SM BR VV002 20/19 A2997 RMK AO2 ACFT MISHAP
KLFT 281453Z 12005KT 3/4SM BR VV002 19/19 A2997 RMK AO2 SLP146 T01940189 53011

[GordonR_Cape]

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

[tdracer]

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]

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]

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 :(
https://www.si.com/college/2019/12/28/carley-mccord-death-plane-crash-lsu-steve-ensminger?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&xid=socialflow_facebook_si&utm_campaign=sportsillustrated&fbclid=IwAR0Fg_zjxfxac6WN_lrqTQYs-DUMHT8uOKJ2KnD5y_EcpZaobTzVy93v9A4

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]

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]

Aviation Investigation - 29 Docket Items - CEN20MA044 - Description: N42CV, Piper PA 31T (https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=100739)

See Item 21 (caution - long report)

[Chgoquad]

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 :)