14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Sunday, January 22, 2012 in Quincy, FL
Aircraft: CESSNA 150G, registration: N73JK
Injuries: 1 Fatal.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed.
On January 22, 2012, about 2015 eastern standard time, a Cessna 150G, N73JK, was substantially damaged when it impacted trees and terrain shortly after taking off from Quincy Municipal Airport (2J9), Quincy, Florida. The certificated private pilot was fatally injured. Night instrument meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan had been filed for the flight to Craig Field (CRG), Jacksonville, Florida. The personal flight was conducted under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91.
According to a witness who was also a pilot, he heard the accident airplane land after sunset, about 1830, and it subsequently taxied to the fuel pump for refueling. The witness, who was mostly working in his hangar while the airplane was on the ground, did not speak with the accident pilot. However, shortly before the airplane departed, the witness noted that fog was beginning to roll onto the airport, and noted that his in-hangar weather station indicated a temperature of 19 degrees C and a dew point of 18 degrees C. The witness later heard the airplane start up and taxi for a takeoff from runway 14. During the taxi and takeoff, the witness heard the engine operate "normally." It was only later, after the witness heard sirens, that he realized that the airplane had crashed.
The airplane came to rest upside down, about 0.8 statute miles northeast of the airport, in the vicinity of 30 degrees, 36.24 minutes north latitude, 084 degrees 32.81 minutes west longitude. The airplane was located at the edge of a clearing, at the end of an approximately 250-foot, 20-degree descending wreckage path through trees, that headed about 310 degrees magnetic. Initial tree cuts were consistent with an approximately 45-degree, right-wing-down attitude.
No preexisting mechanical anomalies were noted with the airplane. All flight control surfaces were located at the accident scene. The right wing was separated from the fuselage about midway along the wreckage path. Right wing control continuity was confirmed from the aileron, to where the aileron control cables exhibited separation signatures consistent with overload. Flight control continuity within the main wreckage was confirmed from the cockpit to the overloaded right aileron control cables, as well as all remaining flight control surfaces.
The propeller, which was found separated from the engine crankshaft flange, exhibited s-bending on one blade, while the other blade was bent 90 degrees aft, about midspan, and was further wrinkled near the tip. Numerous tree branches along the wreckage path exhibited approximately 45-degree cuts.
The engine was impact-damaged, with the carburetor and air box separated, and could not be rotated. Blue-colored fuel, that was clear and absent of debris, was found in the fuel lines. The gascolater was clean with a small amount of debris on the fuel screen. Both magnetos were sparked on all terminals, spark plug electrodes exhibited light gray deposits, and suction was produced from the wet vacuum pump when its drive shaft was rotated.
Weather observations were not recorded at the airport. However, weather was recorded about 20 minutes before the accident at an airport approximately 16 nautical miles to the southeast, and about 140 feet lower in elevation. The observation at that time included a scattered cloud layer at 100 feet above the ground (agl) and an overcast cloud layer at 400 feet agl.
Accident occurred Sunday, January 22, 2012 in Quincy, FL
Aircraft: CESSNA 150G, registration: N73JK
Injuries: 1 Fatal.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed.
On January 22, 2012, about 2015 eastern standard time, a Cessna 150G, N73JK, was substantially damaged when it impacted trees and terrain shortly after taking off from Quincy Municipal Airport (2J9), Quincy, Florida. The certificated private pilot was fatally injured. Night instrument meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan had been filed for the flight to Craig Field (CRG), Jacksonville, Florida. The personal flight was conducted under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91.
According to a witness who was also a pilot, he heard the accident airplane land after sunset, about 1830, and it subsequently taxied to the fuel pump for refueling. The witness, who was mostly working in his hangar while the airplane was on the ground, did not speak with the accident pilot. However, shortly before the airplane departed, the witness noted that fog was beginning to roll onto the airport, and noted that his in-hangar weather station indicated a temperature of 19 degrees C and a dew point of 18 degrees C. The witness later heard the airplane start up and taxi for a takeoff from runway 14. During the taxi and takeoff, the witness heard the engine operate "normally." It was only later, after the witness heard sirens, that he realized that the airplane had crashed.
The airplane came to rest upside down, about 0.8 statute miles northeast of the airport, in the vicinity of 30 degrees, 36.24 minutes north latitude, 084 degrees 32.81 minutes west longitude. The airplane was located at the edge of a clearing, at the end of an approximately 250-foot, 20-degree descending wreckage path through trees, that headed about 310 degrees magnetic. Initial tree cuts were consistent with an approximately 45-degree, right-wing-down attitude.
No preexisting mechanical anomalies were noted with the airplane. All flight control surfaces were located at the accident scene. The right wing was separated from the fuselage about midway along the wreckage path. Right wing control continuity was confirmed from the aileron, to where the aileron control cables exhibited separation signatures consistent with overload. Flight control continuity within the main wreckage was confirmed from the cockpit to the overloaded right aileron control cables, as well as all remaining flight control surfaces.
The propeller, which was found separated from the engine crankshaft flange, exhibited s-bending on one blade, while the other blade was bent 90 degrees aft, about midspan, and was further wrinkled near the tip. Numerous tree branches along the wreckage path exhibited approximately 45-degree cuts.
The engine was impact-damaged, with the carburetor and air box separated, and could not be rotated. Blue-colored fuel, that was clear and absent of debris, was found in the fuel lines. The gascolater was clean with a small amount of debris on the fuel screen. Both magnetos were sparked on all terminals, spark plug electrodes exhibited light gray deposits, and suction was produced from the wet vacuum pump when its drive shaft was rotated.
Weather observations were not recorded at the airport. However, weather was recorded about 20 minutes before the accident at an airport approximately 16 nautical miles to the southeast, and about 140 feet lower in elevation. The observation at that time included a scattered cloud layer at 100 feet above the ground (agl) and an overcast cloud layer at 400 feet agl.
OCEAN SPRINGS, MS (WLOX) - When word spread that a plane crash claimed the life of Ocean Springs pilot Jerry Golden, the pastor at First Baptist Church in Ocean Springs rushed to Golden's wife.
Rev. Michael Barnett has served as a spiritual leader for the family for 11 years. The reverend feels like he lost one of his own family members. "Of course it just takes your breath away. You immediately go into a shock and just a great burden falls on you for the family. You want to get to them as soon as you can and pray with them, encourage them and be there for them," Barnett said.
The small plane crash Sunday night was in a town just west of Tallahassee, Florida. According to reports, Golden took off from Ocean Springs on Sunday. A short while later the Cessna 150 he was piloting crashed in a wooded area near Quincy, Florida.
That particular journey was nothing out of the ordinary for the Air Force retiree, which is part of the reason his family and friends are left in a state of complete shock.
"Very brilliant man, very meticulous man. He could do just about anything. Happy fellow, joking fellow and kind of one of those people that you really like. That's the way his whole family is, his wife and his daughter. Just a great friend to a lot of people in our church and in this community," Barnett said.
Support for the Golden family is everywhere. That support includes Ocean Springs Middle School where Golden's surviving wife Deborah has worked since 1995.
"What we're trying to do is just take care of all the day to day matters in our school. Get in coordination with her family and her church family, which is tremendous and try to decide what we can do to comfort her and her family. We will do what ever it takes to help her family out," Jerry Twiggs, principal of Ocean Springs Middle School said.
"They're Christian people and their faith is strong in the Lord. They have all the confidence in the promises of God for such a time as this. Also the have confidence in the Holy Spirit, who is their comforter and has come along their side and has strengthened them. Emotions will be a roller coaster I mean they'll be up and down, but they know the Lord will always be with them and see them through," Barnett said.
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