Tcraft Accident

[Acroeric]

IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 96486 Make/Model: BC12 Description: TAYLORCRAFT BC-12D
Date: 06/13/2006 Time: 1635

Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Substantial

LOCATION
City: MAYVILLE State: NY Country: US

DESCRIPTION
ACFT ON SHORT FINAL, CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, THERE WERE TWO
PERSONS ON BOARD, ONE WAS FATALLY INJURED AND ONE SUSTAINED SERIOUS
INJURIES, MAYVILLE, NY

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 1
# Crew: 2 Fat: 1 Ser: 1 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:

WEATHER: NOT REPORTED

OTHER DATA

Departed: Dep Date: Dep. Time:
Destination: Flt Plan: Wx Briefing:
Last Radio Cont:
Last Clearance:

FAA FSDO: ROCHESTER, NY (EA23) Entry date: 06/14/2006

[Ed O'Brien]

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This was just on Barnstormer. I'm assuming it was the same accident. With regards; Ed OBrien

"Tim Coughlin in Manlius, New York reports: "Not sure if you got this incredibly bad news. Tracy Dart was killed in a Taylorcraft crash Tuesday." On behalf of ALL visitors and advertisers on the Barnstormers site, as well as Barnstormers' staff, we are saddened by this tragic event, and offer the following words to Greg, Bob and Family: Please accept our most sincere condolences on the loss of your sister/daughter. May the special memories that you hold in your heart give you the strength to find a happier tomorrow."

[gilligansae]

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Yes, very sad and unfortunate news from Mayville. The articles in the local Rochester, Buffalo papers stated an apparent loss of engine power on takeoff and impact with power lines.

Everyone who has been to Dart Field knows this family. The entire flying community in Western and Southern NY is saddened and wishes the Dart family the best in their time of need.

[flylo]

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Does anyone know who the passenger was?

[Ed O'Brien]

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Here's the full story from a local newspaper.
With regards;
ED OBRIEN

Instructor dies in plane crash

Teen injured after single-engine aircraft goes downBy NATE DOUGHERTY OBSERVER Staff Writer

OBSERVER Photo by Nate Dougherty

Investigators look over a plane crash on Tuesday in Mayville.

6/14/2006 - HARTFIELD — A 36-year-old flight instructor was killed when a single-engine plane she was in crashed less than a mile from the Dart Airport late Tuesday morning.

Tracy Dart, of 6167 Plank Road, Mayville, was killed after the plane experienced engine problems, struck power lines and crashed in a field one-tenth of a mile off Lindberg Road, the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Department reported. Dart died on the scene, while the student pilot, 17-year-old Galleger G. Bobseine of Cattaraugus, was airlifted to Hamot Medical Center in Erie, Pa. He was taken to intensive care and was listed in critical condition with serious head and body injuries.

Dart’s father, Robert Dart, is the owner of Dart Airport.

The Sheriff’s Department reported the plane left the airport at about 11:55 a.m., and 911 calls reporting the crash came in at 11:57 a.m.

An investigator from the Federal Aviation Administration was on the scene, looking over the wreckage where the plane landed about 20 feet from the tree line. Sheriff Joe Gerace reported the crash caused a brief power outage.

A similar crash occurred at Dart Airport in 2002, when a 68-year-old pilot was killed after his single-engine plane became entangled in power lines and crashed into a cornfield.

The Freay Funeral Home in Mayville will be handling services for Dart.

[hangarb7]

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Geez, this is so incredibly sad. My wife and I stopped in there on a drive vacation this time last year.

Bob and Tracy were so very nice and gracious. Bob did the nickel tour and even fixed me up with some used TC pulleys. Invited me to come back and fly their experimental Aeronca C3 when it was finished resto.

What a nice place, Dart Field. I think they had a big fly-in flea market this weekend. Hope that Bob and his son can be happy again some day.

Jack D.

[dedrekon]

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That's some very sad news...although I've never been into Dart or met the Darts, I did share some correspondence with Galleger G. Bobseine , the 17 year old that was injured in the accident. He found me through my website and had a lot of Taylorcraft related questions, as he hoped to someday own one.
He's a very polite young man who is also an expert marksman. I hope he recovers fully and maintains his keen interest in flying, despite this tragic event.


V

[Ed O'Brien]

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I did not know Tracy. Nor, do I know her family. But I know the type which she obviously represents. Those that love flying, deep down inside a hungry gut, fly the best, fly
the absolute the best that you can kind of love. When that flying crawls inside us we are always it's love and it is always love too.

I've lost many friends, some very very close ones to this love. We always say at their funerals that they were doing what they loved. I'm not sure that in every case that was true. But without knowing much about this accident but imagining that I know Tracy. Given what fraction of a moment that she must've had... to do anything, let alone a right thing. I find it interesting that as her Taylorcraft succumbed to physics she likely did some very small thing that saved her passenger. Some tiny instantaneous thing that made the best of an awful few seconds.

Likely, we'll never know if this is true. FAA investigations aren't that precise. But, I've seen it among pilots, among lovers of flight, and so have you. When we do this, we're not heroes but lovers. I've noticed that love conquers
physics, now and then.
With regards;
Ed O'Brien

[Carl Ellis]

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Looks like the Tcraft belonged to the passenger's family.






N-number : N96486
Aircraft Serial Number : 8786
Aircraft Manufacturer : TAYLORCRAFT
Model : BC12-D
Engine Manufacturer : CONT MOTOR
Model : A&C65 SERIES
Aircraft Year : 1946
Owner Name : BOBSEINE GARY L
Owner Address : 10527 42ND ST
CATTARAUGUS, NY, 14719-9682
Type of Owner : Individual
Registration Date : 15-Apr-1996
Airworthiness Certificate Type : Standard

[flylo]

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Ed,very well put.

[Forrest Barber]

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Just getting caught up on this one. First report here in Alliance indicated a Taylorcraaft, two males, crashed near there, no fatality. I left the area for over a week and came back to find out that Tracy Dart was indeed the instructor. I of course could not believe this tragedy, Bob was so proud of her and her flying abilities. Read the NTSB report. I will send our condolences from the Foundation to the family. That is indeed a true flying family.