Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (2024)

Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (1)By: Tim-OBX
9/28/2024 5:34 PM

Listening to the scanner and there is a plane at first flight that has had a rocket launched from it into the woods around the monument. Interesting. 5:30pm

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (2)By: IronWheelz
9/28/2024 5:52 PM

people on Facebook saying a plane crashed? but if you are hearing something different on scanner you probably have more accurate info.

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (3)By: Tim-OBX
9/28/2024 7:26 PM

Listening to the scanner I am thinking it is a military jet, it had a rocket eject and caught the woods on fire nearby. They closed the runway - I assume there is a plane or junk on it the NTSB wants to see. The state police were asked to quarantine the area for the NTSB to arrive. A crash or accident for sure. The medivac was canceled - but no call for the Chaplin.

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (4)By: Tim-OBX
9/28/2024 7:37 PM

Facebook picture. I am thinking this is a runway excursion into trees. They did cancel Medivac - maybe no one to Medivac???????

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (6)By: notinobx
9/28/2024 8:26 PM

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (7)By: Anniemimi
9/29/2024 8:23 AM

National Park Service hit the news feed that a plane crashed into the woods near Wright Brothers Memorial Saturday at 5pm. Witness said plane came in too low for landing. Fatalities. No names released. Condolences to the families for their loss.

LINK above for article...from notinobx.

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (8)By: KHbiker
9/29/2024 8:31 AM

Listening to the scanner and there is a plane at first flight that has had a rocket launched from it into the woods around the monument. Interesting. 5:30pm

It looks like it was a Cirrus (light plane) N1281F. These Cirrus planes have a emergency parachute that can be used to lower the plane down in an emergency. But it has to be used with enough altitude for it to work. If the pilot was too low, the chute deploying might have looked like a "Flare". So sad. First Flight airstrip has been a very safe place, a good safety record.

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (9)By: Tim-OBX
9/29/2024 9:12 AM

Listening to the scanner and there is a plane at first flight that has had a rocket launched from it into the woods around the monument. Interesting. 5:30pm

It looks like it was a Cirrus (light plane) N1281F. These Cirrus planes have a emergency parachute that can be used to lower the plane down in an emergency. But it has to be used with enough altitude for it to work. If the pilot was too low, the chute deploying might have looked like a "Flare". So sad. First Flight airstrip has been a very safe place, a good safety record.

That makes sense. The firemen (non pilots) kept saying a rocket was fired. It could have been the ballistic parachute the Cirrus has, as you said. I wondered why they needed so much water and why no military aircraft showed up here. The witness said it came in to low to land I am wondering what that means? FFA has some nasty crosswinds for sure!!!

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (10)By: KHbiker
9/29/2024 11:23 AM

That makes sense. The firemen (non pilots) kept saying a rocket was fired. It could have been the ballistic parachute the Cirrus has, as you said. I wondered why they needed so much water and why no military aircraft showed up here. The witness said it came in to low to land I am wondering what that means? FFA has some nasty crosswinds for sure!!!

You always have to take witness accounts with a grain of salt. I read that another witness said they were too high to land. Why would you expect military aircraft to be there?

Now, crosswinds and gusty landing conditions are a constant at First Flight. Those tall trees on each side of the runway usually make for challenging landings.

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (11)By: Tim-OBX
9/29/2024 1:51 PM

The firemen were saying that a rocket was fired off and started a fire. What plane has a rocket other than military? It is obvious now that is was a Cirrus - here is the flight log showing that plane doing a good bit of flying in the last week. It had left Manteo to go to First Flight when it crashed.

By the way for the non pilots, the flight duration's around here are off a lot because you are not seen on radar until you get up over a thousand feet, so they can't track you if you are too low.

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (13)By: Tim-OBX
9/29/2024 1:54 PM

This shows altitude vs speed. The plane came down low and was doing 100 mph which is pretty fast.

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (15)By: KHbiker
9/29/2024 2:11 PM

There were 5 fatalities, including one minor.

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (16)By: Tim-OBX
9/29/2024 3:26 PM

There were 5 fatalities, including one minor.

Interesting - that Cirrus is a 4 seater and they just left Manteo - I wonder if they fueled up there. Overweight maybe? It looks like it was just made in 3-2024.

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (17)By: Tim-OBX
9/29/2024 5:03 PM

I did some gum shoe work and this seems like the plane owner. A google search found this and he seems to go to a lot of car races.

www.instagram.com/aeroatl...

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (18)By: KHbiker
9/30/2024 5:33 AM


Interesting - that Cirrus is a 4 seater and they just left Manteo - I wonder if they fueled up there. Overweight maybe? It looks like it was just made in 3-2024.

I've been thinking that myself, that they were close to gross weight. The data I found shows it manufactured in 2023. Sad story.

EDIT: Manufactured in 2023, airworthiness certificate issued in March 2024.

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (19)By: ezbuckwheat
9/30/2024 9:31 AM

Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (20)By: Alexy
9/30/2024 10:54 AM

There were 5 fatalities, including one minor.

That is horrific news. Prayers for them and their families. The "rocket" sounds like it was the automatic deployment of the airplanes safety chute. ( Link attached)

brsaerospace.com/

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (21)By: ezbuckwheat
9/30/2024 11:49 AM

Listening to the scanner and there is a plane at first flight that has had a rocket launched from it into the woods around the monument. Interesting. 5:30pm

It looks like it was a Cirrus (light plane) N1281F. These Cirrus planes have an emergency parachute that can be used to lower the plane down in an emergency. But it has to be used with enough altitude for it to work. If the pilot was too low, the chute deploying might have looked like a "Flare". So sad. First Flight airstrip has been a very safe place, a good safety record.

I was curious to know what the minimum altitude for deployment was and I found this.

Click to follow link...:~:text=The%20official%20minimum%20deployment%20height,some%20aircraft%2C%20according%20to%20BRS.

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (22)By: Tim-OBX
9/30/2024 11:51 AM


Interesting - that Cirrus is a 4 seater and they just left Manteo - I wonder if they fueled up there. Overweight maybe? It looks like it was just made in 3-2024.

I've been thinking that myself, that they were close to gross weight. The data I found shows it manufactured in 2023. Sad story.

EDIT: Manufactured in 2023, airworthiness certificate issued in March 2024.

It can lift 1400 lbs and with 5 people and fuel and luggage I came to about 100 lbs of max load. I wonder if when he was abeam the landing spot on the runway you throttle back to slowly land, but his tail was heavy and dropped and he stalled.

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (23)By: ezbuckwheat
9/30/2024 1:06 PM

This article has a little bit of info that the local articles did not.

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (24)By: Tim-OBX
9/30/2024 1:18 PM

This article has a little bit of info that the local articles did not.

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That article says it has seats for 4 and a pilot and that is not correct. Two seats in front and two behind.

2023 CIRRUS DESIGN CORP SR22
Fixed wing single engine
(4 seats / 1 engine)

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (25)By: Tim-OBX
9/30/2024 1:37 PM

The plane did have the ballistic parachute option. I found a picture of the inside of the plane that crashed and you can see the red handle to pull in the plane's ceiling.

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Airplane with a roacket at First Flight (27)By: Tim-OBX
9/30/2024 1:39 PM

It had a really nice panel too.

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