According to a co-owner of the airplane, the private pilot had just bought a share of the accident airplane and was in the process of accumulating flight hours for complex and higherformance aircraft endorsements. It's easy to understand accidents that have a clear path of poor decisions. This is the type of crash that likely catches LOTS of self-aware pilots' attentionInre your (Winchman's) observation/question noted in the 1st paragraph, writing as a (never-used-for-income) aerospace-engineering-degreed, ~2600-hr glider-only pilot who also 'messed around w. RC gliders', one 'obvious difference' between RC power planes and full-sized ones is what I'll call 'prop-disc-area/mass ratio' differences, with the RC 'ratio' being considerably higher than that for man-carrying (182) equivalents. Don was also a proud supporter of the Boy Scouts of America, and especially proud of his son, Will, becoming an Eagle Scout with Troup 5, which is associated with the First United Methodist Church. Sign up for newsletters emailed to your inbox. Rock is survived by his wife of 27 years, Kim; three children, Rachel Palermo, Ryan Palermo (Madison), and Sarah Palermo; mother, Jackie Palermo; mother-in-law and father-in-law, Jenny and Reggie Keogh; brother, Lance Palermo (Tonia); sisters, Ashley Palermo (Nick Goodling) and Alisha Palermo; brother-in-law, Scott Seeliger (Sheila); sister-in-law, Keri Keogh (Dave); nieces and nephews, Mikayla Seeliger, Mikenna Seeliger, Grayson Palermo, Addison Goodling, and Reid Goodling; aunts and uncles, Mary Ann Fiorenza, Tony Palermo, Sr. (Tina), Gil Manuel (Brenda), Johnny Manuel (Mona), Phil Manuel (Pam), and Matt Manuel (Carey); and numerous loving cousins and extended family. If that happened, NTSB examination of the connection points in the elevator controls for lost fasteners will find one. At the time of his death, Don was a partner in the Global Asset Management Group (Raymond James) in Lake Charles, LA. (KPLC) - Two bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of a plane that went down near Hackberry Tuesday, Cameron Sheriff Don Johnson said. Beefier police presence planned at football game after BRPD chief got into scuffle while making arrest near campus. There is an FAA order (8020-11D) that outlines the entire concept of the hand-off of certain accident investigations. Smoke billows after a small touring plane crashed over the San Donato Milanese district in Milan. BATON ROUGE - One week into Lent and the crawfish market is seeing one of its first significant drops of the season. The private pilot and flight instructor were fatally injured. 1 LSU's big win over Butler. (AP) A pilot and a passenger in a small airplane were killed when the plane crashed in a rural area near North Platte in central Nebraska, officials said. That person told investigators he was in the back seat during a training flight on Feb. 1, and the man had done well on flight maneuvers. There is a long standing agreement between the NTSB and the FAA that the NTSB, because of being short-staffed, has the official authority and do relegate most general aviation accidents solely to the FAA. Calcasieu Sheriff Tony Mancuso got emotional while speaking Wednesday morning at a news conference. The sales broker for the plane told investigators that on the day of the crash, the pilot reported completing a one-hour flight to meet insurance policy requirements. BATON ROUGE - A man arrested for running Saturday AM Forecast: Today's weather will be near perfect. The intentional lie about finding the missing blade showed how little regard for their loss the tuber actually has. AD is for problems that showed up on the tail draggers.Models 182 through 182D airplanes have the same tailcone design as Model 185-series tail draggers. Date & Time: February 2, 2021, 17:44 Local, Flight Conducted Under: Part 91: General aviation - Instructional. During training, broker was in the back seat with the two in the front. The demonizing of the NTSB over not traveling to this accident included the untruthful claim "I found the missing blade". And he was good at all three of them.. Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center confirmed that 61-year-old Michael Clements died Tuesday. The plane, a single-engine Cessna 182 four-seater, crashed on a small island between Hackberry and Big Lake, near Pete Seay Circle. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you make a charitable donation to The St. Nicholas Center for Children in Lake Charles, LA (www.stnickcenter.org) or Concerns of Police Survivors (www.concernsofpolicesurvivors.org). To day & Tonight : The Temperatures across the Friday PM Forecast: starting weekend cooler then trending warmer. HACKBERRY, La. The NTSB report outlines the final moments the craft was in flight. The plane took off again about 5:13 p.m. and crashed about a half-hour later. Two bodies were removed from the plane that crashed Tuesday evening on a small island near Hackberry, Cameron Parish Sheriff Ron Johnson told news agencies. The plane, a single-engine Cessna 182 four-seater, crashed on a small island between Hackberry and Big Lake, near Pete Seay Circle. According to the airplane broker, on the day of the accident the private pilot called to report that he had just completed a 1-hour flight in the accident airplane to satisfy the insurance policy requirements. GREENVILLE, S.C. - No. Palermo was a local attorney at Veron, Bice, Palermo & Wilson and was a pilot with the Calcasieu Parish Sheriffs Office. Don Clements will be having a visitation from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, February 6, and funeral at 3 p.m. Click here to see Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso and District Attorney Stephen Dwight speak about what it was like to know Rock Palermo. Don graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Louisiana Tech University. Makes no sense to claim "non-existent investigation" when the preliminary report describes verification of control continuity by examination for tensile overload separations and a determination of as-found fuel selector position. He should be smart enough to simply ask someone else to report the find to the FSDO if his ongoing vendetta complicates doing so on his own. Theyre very easy to fly and one of the reasons a lot of people choose to fly them is because theyre so safe, said Thompson, describing such arcraft. If you do it wrong, when you come over the top and are inverted, if you let the nose fall towards the ground in a plane like that you can loose three or four thousand feet really fast and can easily exceed redline. Hes just one of those people you cant replace.. It seems like something major must have gone wrong here. (KPLC) -The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the deadly crash that claimed the life of two well known citizens in our area. Then the day of the accident, Clements completed a one-hour flight around 2:30 p.m. in the plane as an insurance policy requirement without any complications. In lieu of flowers, donation can be made to the music mission at First United Methodist Church in Lake Charles or to a charity of your choice. As a result of inadequate maintenance, the aircraft's No. At least 68 people were killed Sunday when an aircraft went down near the city of Pokhara in central Nepal, a government official said, the country's deadliest plane crash in more than 30 years. An obituary for Rock Palermo can be found HERE. This proposed AD would require inspecting the tailcone and horizontal stabilizer for corrosion and cracks and repairing or replacing damaged parts as necessary. Distance To/From what? LSU pitcher Paul Skenes LSU women's basketball beats Georgia 83-66 in SEC Tournament matchup. As an. Watch the 2 Your Health report for Thursday, Watch the 2 Your Health report for Tuesday, Crawfish Tracker: Signs of life (and price drops). On Feb. 2, 2021, an aircraft went down, killing both men on board, Rock Palermo and Don Clements. In what way am I misinterpreting my observations?BTW, I'm a low-time private pilot who owned a C172 in the late'90s, and I've also logged about forty hours in a C182. lol) to give me the answer. Mancuso was visibly upset by his passing as spoke to those assembled, "He is one of those people you can't replace.". To reach the newsroom or report a typo/correction, click HERE. (6:43 in the #2 video)If he really did find it, a responsible person who wanted resolution for the pilots and their loved ones would have immediately called the local FSDO and made sure it got turned over by positive handoff. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Palermo and Clements were killed when their Cessna. After initiating a turn to return to the airport, the aircraft eventually descended into, or attempted to ditch into, the ocean a mile offshore. Killed in the crash. Posted on 2/3/21 at 10:57 am to Lithium. The grieving families need the analysis to be done on that blade. "Tue 06:41:31 PM 29.9490 -93.3408 351 110 127 4,225 367 Climbing Tue 06:41:50 PM 29.9582 -93.3425 352 116 133 4,275 Level Tue 06:42:06 PM 29.9667 -93.3437 356 115 132 4,225 47 Climbing Tue 06:42:22 PM 29.9747 -93.3442 359 95 109 4,300 214 Climbing Tue 06:42:41 PM 29.9824 -93.3438 9 82 94 4,350 36 Climbing Tue 06:43:04 PM 29.9898 -93.3416 20 66 76 4,325 -205 Descending Tue 06:43:25 PM Tue 06:43:25 PM 29.9947 -93.3391 29 56 64 4,200 -357 Descending. Visualize being the FAA rep on scene for parts recovery when the hub was pulled up with one blade missing. Don't get taken in by the constant criticism of NTSB and FAA efforts. Copyright 2021 KPLC. The airplane impacted soft ground on an island about 1.5 nautical miles northeast of Hackberry. Bold criminal secretly relaunched massage parlor prostitution ring as he cut a Federal, local dollars at work clearing waterways in EBR. Other questions:subscriberservices@theadvocate.com. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, and their children, Mary Kathryn and Will. In the last 12 seconds of recorded data, the airplane made a right turn and had descended about 3,200 ft. He could not have been prouder of his children. He and the department announced the death of Rock Palermo who was employed by the sheriff's office. The weekend Friday AM Forecast: Wind Advisory this morning, clear and sunny this afternoon. Records show that the day's first flight ended about 2:36 p.m. No dive. Visitation will resume on Saturday February 6, 2021 at Trinity Baptist Church from 10:00 a.m. until 11:30 AM, with a Mass of Christian Burial to be observed at 12 noon on Saturday, February 6, 2021, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, 935 Bilbo Street, Lake Charles, Johnson Funeral Home, Lake Charles has been entrusted with arrangements. He's blaming the crash on the theory that the three-bladed prop at idle created a flat disc effect that stopped air flow to the elevator and recovery from a stall.I know about a three-bladed prop having a flat disc effect at low throttle from my experience with giant scale model planes. I watched all three episodes of Utube guy, and I still dont really know what his theory really was. I think its a possibility that needs to be explored by people who know a whole lot more about it than I do. Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Authorities are investigating after a jet from Luke Air Force Base crashed near Buckeye north of the White Tank Mountains on Thursday morning, according to Sean Clements, a . Copyright 2021 KPLC. The youtube guy's 3rd dramatic video came out but has no photo or any mention about the missing blade. At the time of his death, Don was a partner in the Global Asset Management Group (Raymond James) in Lake Charles, LA. BATON ROUGE - One week into Lent and the crawfish market is seeing one of its first significant drops of the season. yeah these are the crashes that really bother me --the unknown cause ones .That's when I consider --should I really be flying planes ? The Veron Bice family is saddened by the loss of our founding partner, Rock Palermo. LAKE CHARLES, La. FAA training on proper inspection practices details a disconnected C182 "up" elevator control connection true life incident in this document:https://www.faasafety.gov/files/gslac/courses/content/37/561/ffp.htm. I missed the nose down attitude observed by witnesses. 0:47. There was a problem saving your notification. You have permission to edit this article. Hackberry, LA (KPLC) - The National Transportation Safety Board has released the report on its investigation of a deadly plane crash in Hackberry. Rock Palermo and Don Clements were killed in the crash, Johnson said. To view all the aviation investigation items released by NTSB, CLICK HERE. In July of 1973, the National Transportation Safety Board ruled that Clemente's DC-7 was 4,200 pounds overweight, and that it had not been flown in over four months.