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UPDATE: One injured following small plane crash near Cascade Lake north of Tallahassee International Airport
By: WTXL Digital Staff
TALLAHASSEE, FL — We're learning more information
about a small plane crash in Tallahassee Wednesday.
In a press release from the Tallahassee Fire Department, they say a small aircraft crash-landed near Cascade Lake, north of Tallahassee International Airport, Wednesday morning, injuring one person.
The report states TFD responded to the Alert III aircraft emergency at just before Noon. They say Airport Rescue and Firefighting crews and TFD Station 4 personnel arrived to find a downed aircraft with one occupant.
TFD says firefighters treated the patient, who was taken
by Leon County EMS for further evaluation. TFD Hazmat personnel initiated fuel containment operations after identifying fuel leaking onto the aircraft's wings. A search of the aircraft confirmed no additional occupants were inside.
The Tallahassee Police Department, Leon County Sheriff's Office, Leon County EMS, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection are assisting at the scene.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/developing-multiple-agencies-respond-to-small-plane-crash-in-tallahassee-per-tpd
Student Pilot Lands Plane After Instructor 'Falls' Out
Argentina Investigating How Instructor Fell From Cessna 150
Authorities in Argentina are continuing to investigate the fatal accident in which a flight instructor fell from a 
training aircraft, leaving his 22-year-old student pilot to land the airplane by herself.
The 42-year-old flight instructor died after apparently falling from the plane. The incident occurred in a rural area of Toledo, in the Río Segundo department, after the aircraft took off from Coronel Olmedo Airport.
The student pilot and instructor were flying the Cessna 150 from Flying Parrot flight school.
According to authorities, she told investigators the instructor removed his headset, carefully placed his phone and other belongings inside the cockpit, unbuckled his restraint, opened the cabin door and jumped from the airplane.
The student said she immediately radioed for help, informing air traffic personnel that the instructor had fallen from the aircraft, according to reports.
The case is being handled by Argentina's federal judicial authorities because it involves an aviation accident. Investigators have interviewed the student pilot, seized the aircraft for examination, ordered a forensic examination of the instructor, collected radio communications and witness statements and begun reviewing the instructor's background and medical history.
NTSB Final Report: TL Ultralight Sting RG
Pilot Reported That Although The Fuel Quantity Indicator Displayed About 25% Remaining, The Airplane Had Run Out Of Fuel
Location: Rio Linda, California Accident Number: WPR24LA218
Date & Time: June 26, 2024, 09:56 Local Registration: N912RG
Aircraft: TL Ultralight Sting RG Aircraft Damage: Substantial
Defining Event: Fuel exhaustion Injuries: 1 Minor
Flight Conducted Under: Part 91: General aviation - Personal
Analysis: The pilot reported that he departed for a local area flight with the fuel quantity indicator displaying about 50% (about 16 gallons) fuel remaining. After several takeoffs and landings at a nearby airport, the pilot elected to return to his home airport when the fuel quantity indicator displayed about 25% remaining. While on the final leg of the airport traffic pattern, the engine lost total power, and the pilot performed a forced landing to a field. During the landing, the airplane collided with a softball field perimeter fence before coming to rest upright. Shortly after the accident, the pilot reported that although the fuel quantity indicator displayed about 25% remaining, the airplane had run out of fuel.
Postaccident examination revealed that the airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. Examination of the engine revealed no evidence of preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures. No usable fuel was observed in the fuel sump, fuel pump, or carburetor bowls. The fuel float assembly was powered with an external battery, and the fuel sensor arm was manually actuated; however, the fuel quantity indicator did not respond.
The pilot reported that the fuel quantity indicator displayed approximately 25% fuel remaining despite postaccident examination revealing no usable fuel within the fuel system. Although the extent to which impact damage or postaccident disassembly may have affected the fuel quantity sensing system could not be determined, postaccident testing revealed that the fuel quantity indicator did not respond to movement of the fuel sensor arm. Additionally, the pilot reported that due to the design of the fuel tank installation, he was unable to verify the fuel quantity by visual inspection or use of a dipstick. Nevertheless, the fuel quantity indication was inconsistent with the actual fuel state of the airplane and likely contributed to the pilot’s overestimation of the available fuel and the subsequent fuel exhaustion.
Probable Cause and Findings: The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be -- A loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. Contributing to the accident was a fuel quantity indication that was inconsistent with the actual fuel state of the airplane, which likely led the pilot to overestimate the amount of fuel remaining onboard.
FMI: www.ntsb.gov
Today in History
44 Years ago today: On 9 July 1982 Pan Am flight 759, a Boeing 727, crashed following a windshear encounter after takeoff from New Orleans Airport, Louisiana, USA, killing all 145 occupants and 8 persons on the ground.
| Date: | Friday 9 July 1982 |
| Time: | 16:09 |
| Type: | Boeing 727-235 |
| Owner/operator: | Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) |
| Registration: | N4737 |
| MSN: | 19457/518 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 39253 hours |
| Engine model: | P&W JT8D-7B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 145 / Occupants: 145 |
| Other fatalities: | 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 1,4 km E of New Orleans International Airport, LA (MSY) - United States of America |
| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | New Orleans International Airport, LA (MSY/KMSY) |
| Destination airport: | Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport, NV (LAS/KLAS) |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:
Pan Am flight 759, a Boeing 727, crashed following a windshear encounter after takeoff from New Orleans Airport, Louisiana, USA, killing all 145 occupants and 8 persons on the ground.
Flight PA759 was a scheduled flight from Miami (MIA) to Las Vegas (LAS), with an en route stop at New Or1eans (MSY). At 15:58:48 Boeing 727 "Clipper Defiance" taxied from its gate at the New Orleans International Airport. Before leaving the gate, the flightcrew had received ATIS message Foxtrot which read in part "....time one eight five five Zulu, weather, two thousand five hundred scattered, two five thousand thin broken, visibility six miles in haze, temperature niner zero, wind two four zero at two, winds are calm altimeter three zero zero one..."
The flightcrew requested runway 10 for the takeoff and ground control cleared the flight to taxi to runway 10. At 15:59:03, the first officer requested a wind check. Winds were 040 degrees at 8 knots. At 16:02:34, while Flight 759 was taxiing to runway 10, the crew heard a transmission from ground control, advising another airplane of low level wind shear alerts in the northeast quadrants of the airport.
At 16:03:33, the first officer requested another wind check. Ground control replied, "Wind now zero seven zero degrees at one seven... peak gusts two three, and we have low level wind shear alerts all quadrants, appears to be a frontal passing overhead right now, we're right in the middle of everything." The captain then advised the first officer to "...let your airspeed build up on takeoff..." and said that they would turn off the air conditioning packs for the takeoff, which would enable them to increase the EPR's on engines Nos. 1 and 3 to 1.92.
The flightcrew completed the takeoff and departure briefings and turned onto the active runway for takeoff. At l6:06:22, Flight 759 informed the tower that it was ready for takeoff. The local rontroller cleared the flight for takeoff, and the first officer acknowledged the clearance.
About 16:07:57, the Boeing 727 began its takeoff. According to witnesses, the airplane lifted off about 7,000 feet down runway 10, climbed in a wings-level attitude, reached an altitude of about 100 feet to 150 feet above the ground (AGL), and then began to descend towards trees. The airplane crashed into a residential area and was destroyed during the impact, explosion, and subsequent ground fire. Eight persons on the ground were killed.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The airplane's encounter during the lift-off and initial climb phase of flight with a micro-burst induced windshear which imposed a downdraft and a decreasing headwind, the effects of which the pilot would have had difficulty recognizing and reacting to in time for the airplane's descent to be arrested before its impact with trees. Contributing to the accident was the limited capability of current ground based low level windshear detection technology to provide definitive guidance for controllers and pilots for use in avoiding low level wind shear encounters."
