NTSB report on the Newberg aircraft crash, in which the student pilot, flight instructor, was killed

Newberg, Ore. – A final report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) about an accident from 2023, in which a student pilot and flight instructor in Newberg were killed, said that both the pilot and the flight instructor could have contributed to the crash. The report published this week makes it clear that no mechanical mistakes were found.

The report stated that the likely causes on “the failure, control of the aircraft and the insufficient surveillance of the flight instructor and the insufficient surveillance of the flight outline were due to, which led to a stable/spin from which they could not recover.”

On October 3, 2023, Barrett Bevacqua, a 20-year-old student pilot, was killed during an hour of flight near Newberg, together with his trainer, the 22-year-old Michele Cavallotti. Another student pilot who was sitting the right seat at the back was seriously injured. The plane fell through the roof of a house, but everyone inside had certainly evacuated it.

This happens months after Bevacqua's family against the Hillsboro Aero Academy, the Ascend Pilot Academy Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, had submitted an illegal death penalty that was looking for $ 27 million in damages.

In the lawsuit it is claimed that Cavallotti, the commander before the plane has come out of control and crashed, may have carried out a maneuver who was referred to as a one -off -controllable flight speed demonstration. Based on the flight lane, wrecks, witness accounts and other information specified in the provisional report of the NTSB, the lawsuit that Cavallotti had not retained control of the aircraft after it had permitted that it slowed down under the safe standards.

“Mr. Cavallotti had to comply with the operating restrictions contained in the FAA-recognized aircraft manual, but not,” says the lawsuit.

In the last NTSB report, according to the surviving passenger, she was invited to observe a multi-engine training unit in which Bevacqua and Cavallotti techniques “slow flight, emergency relegation, steep curves and stands, followed by a VMC demonstration”; The latter includes the reduction in power of the critical engine on the left and repeats the level in front of “the loss of the directional regulation or a stand”. This was Bevacqua's first training flight.

Everything ran to the plan before the stable warning dated during the VMC demonstration.

In the seconds before the crash, the passenger Bevacqua and Cavallotti heard about how to stop the shoot, with Bevacqua finally asked Cavallotti to take control of the plane, which Cavallotti did. However, it became “clear … they would not recover and they would crash”.

The surviving passenger also explained that during the flight “she does not notice any mechanical defects”, but was not available for the advance inspection.

Witnesses told the NTSB that the plane was “turning or spiral” when falling.

During the examination after the crash, the investigators did not find any “mechanical anomalies that would have excluded normal operation”.