At 1256:04, the flight track passed over the accident site elevation (5,457 ft) at an altitude of 7,656 ft mean sea level (msl) and continued southwest in a gradual climb. The flight track continued southwest toward the accident location. The airplane continued the right turn and made a touch-and-go landing on runway 20.Īt 1251:04, the airplane was climbing away from the runway. The data showed the airplane making a right turn to the north at 1248:04. The unit was downloaded, and a review of the last 14 minute segment of flight data showed the airplane departing from KCDC at 1246 using runway 26. The unit retained the recorded data in non-volatile memory at 5 second intervals. The airplane was equipped with an on-board flight tracking system that uploaded recorded data points via satellite to the operator every 2 minutes.

One witness reported that, just before the accident, the airplane was descending in a near vertical fashion in a slight nose-low attitude and looked 'like a fluttering leaf.' Witnesses saw the airplane performing various maneuvers over the dry lake bed, which was used as a training area. The operator reported that the purpose of the flight was for the chief pilot of the flight school to demonstrate the airplane to a newly hired flight instructor. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan had been filed. The local company check flight departed KCDC about 1215. Upper Limit Aviation was operating the airplane under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. The two flight instructors were fatally injured, and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces.

On October 5, 2015, at 1300 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 152, N6449M, impacted a dry lake bed about 6 nautical miles southwest of Cedar City Municipal Airport (KCDC), Cedar City, Utah. NTSB investigators either traveled in support of this investigation or conducted a significant amount of investigative work without any travel, and used data obtained from various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report. Accident occurred Monday, Octoin Cedar City, UTĪircraft: CESSNA 152, registration: N6449M

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