MAY 5, 2015
MULBERRY, TN (WSMV)
For a second day, investigators with the NTSB and FAA sifted
through a pond on a farm in Mulberry where a plane crashed on Sunday.
The biggest task was pulling the plane from the pond to send
off for testing. Investigators hope it will shed light on the crash that killed
46-year-old Linda Bauman.
"It's very surreal," said Zachary Colescott,
manager of the Winchester Municipal Airport. "Linda is one of the last
pilots I would have ever thought something like this would happen to."
Bauman took off from the Winchester Municipal Airport around
2:30 p.m. Sunday. Pilots who knew her said they are just now coming to grips with
what happened.
"This incident happened on Sunday afternoon and we
didn't find out about it until Monday morning, so that hurts quite a bit,"
Colescott said. "Personally, thinking that there was something we could
have done in the meantime if we had found out earlier."
Airport officials said filing a flight plan isn't required
by the FAA in nice weather, but it could have helped in this crash.
Now, airport officials want to make changes to improve
communication for others.
"We will go back ... and talk about procedures and some
things we could've done differently and maybe put together a checklist to make
things happen a little bit quicker," Colescott said.
Airport staff remembered the mother of two as an experienced
pilot who was always jovial but careful.
"Her personality, just always a big smile,"
Colescott said. "It was always like she was having fun. But I think behind
that was a tone of seriousness and she really respected what she was doing in
flying the airplane.
Investigators have released the name of a female pilot
killed in a single-engine plane crash in rural Lincoln County Monday
morning.
Linda Bauman, 46, of Belvidere, Tennessee was killed Sunday
afternoon when the small plane she was piloting crashed in a pond on a farm
along Steelman Road, off Highway 50 in the community of Mulberry. The farm
owners were not home Sunday and did not find the wreckage until Monday
morning.
The debris field at the scene indicates that the plane hit a
tree before plunging into the pond. A cow at the farm was apparently killed in
the crash, according
to News Channel 5 out of Nashville.
Scroll down to the end of the story to see aerial footage
from the crash site.
The TV station reports that Bauman's Cessna 182 crashed
around 2 p.m.
Sunday, though the cause of the crash was not yet
clear. Bauman was reported missing Sunday night.
Lincoln County Sheriff Murray Blackwelder told
AL.com's news partner, WHNT News 19, that the pond will be drained to retrieve
the plane. Though the pond is just five feet deep, the sheriff is reluctant to
send in divers because of sharp metal shrapnel in the wreckage.
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Date:
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03-MAY-2015
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Time:
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14:00
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Type:
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Owner/operator:
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Private
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Registration:
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N6579M
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C/n / msn:
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18263763
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Fatalities:
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Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
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Other fatalities:
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0
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Airplane damage:
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Substantial
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Location:
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Lincoln County, near Mulberry, TN -
United States
of America
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Phase:
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Unknown
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Nature:
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Unknown
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Departure airport:
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Destination airport:
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Narrative:
The aircraft impacted trees and terrain in Lincoln County, near Mulberry, Tennessee. The airplane sustained substantial damage and the sole pilot onboard received fatal injuries.
The aircraft impacted trees and terrain in Lincoln County, near Mulberry, Tennessee. The airplane sustained substantial damage and the sole pilot onboard received fatal injuries.
Sources:
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=175916
http://www.scrippsmedia.com/newschannel5/news/Crews-Investigate-Small-Plane-Crash-In-Lincoln-County-302430221.html
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/05/plane_crashes_in_mulberry_comm.html
http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/28970060/crews-responding-to-plane-crash-in-lincoln-county
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=6579M
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1076665/
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1076665/