------------------------------------------------------------Stay in touch with us anytime, anywhere. In fact, during his training with Palermo, Kerbow says there was an emergency. Scene of plane crash near Hackberry in Cameron Parish February 3, 2021 . yeah these are the crashes that really bother me --the unknown cause ones .That's when I consider --should I really be flying planes ? Good point, thanks. HACKBERRY, La. In the last 12 seconds of recorded data, the airplane made a right turn and had descended about 3,200 ft. Don Clements Death - Obituary | Accident : Dead-Death has learned the passing of Don Clements who has died in a plane crash that occurred in Hackberry.. The plane, a single-engine Cessna 182. Calcasieu Sheriff Tony Mancuso got emotional while speaking Wednesday morning at a news conference. The crankshaft sheared aft of the propeller flange. 7 California, No. Paul Skenes fans a career high 13 in No. Don was honored in 2015 as a Duke by the Krewe of Mystique for the many contributions he made to the community. Copyright 2021 KPLC. 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. Dr Mary Lou Clements-Mann, epidemiologist and leading researcher on AIDS vaccines, dies with her husband, Dr Jonathan Max Mann, in Swissair plane crash off Nova Scotia; couple were on their way to . Is it possible that there was carbon monoxide asphyxiation putting both pilots to sleep? The airplane departed from Southland Field Airport (UXL), Sulphur, Louisiana, about 1326 and terminated about 1436. if I need to take the controls, I will take the controls, said Kerbow. High speed nose down impact. The grieving families need the analysis to be done on that blade. Stony Plain pilot Michael Clements has died following a plane crash in Spokane, Washington, reports a . Palermo was an instructor on the flight and Clements was a student. NTSB, do your job. No responsible person aware of the circumstances would leave it.Ask yourself: Why leave it there? It won't be there when someone does go back to fetch it. The plane took off at 9 p.m. and the sounds of engine failure were heard as it went down the runway. These are the ones that really concern me. A celebration of Dons life will be held on Saturday, February 6, 2021 at 3:00 PM at First United Methodist Church located at 812 Kirkman Street, Lake Charles, LA 70601. The Martin 404 aircraft was heading to . In addition to holding the prestigious Certified Financial Planner certificate, Don held advanced designations in the field of retirement income planning, RICP, and retirement plans, CRPC. Rock Palermo and Don Clements were killed Tuesday night when the small plane they were in crashed in Cameron Parish. Both men were well known in Southwest Louisiana and had touched the lives of many. It said the plane was traveling about 4,500 feet above ground as the air speed decreased and began a slow descent. Local pilot Steve Thompson admits they may never know due to damage to the aircraft. There is an FAA order (8020-11D) that outlines the entire concept of the hand-off of certain accident investigations. Got me back to scratching my head. He may have not been able to retrieve it. We appreciate everyone's prayers Clements was a financial planner with Global Asset Management. He enjoyed every minute spent with them, from discussing politics and world travel with Rachel to attending Ryans baseball games to listening to Sarah play guitar and speak the Spanish language. Palermo and Clements were aboard a plane like this Cessna 182 when they were killed. HACKBERRY, La. Palermo was also a local attorney at Veron, Bice, Palermo & Wilson. It is a detailed order of 40+ pages. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, and their children, Mary Kathryn and Will. The Veron Bice family is saddened by the loss of our founding partner, Rock Palermo. There was not immediate information about arrangements. The private pilot and flight instructor were fatally injured. Mancuso was visibly upset by his passing as spoke to those assembled, "He is one of those people you can't replace.". It gave a number of details about the circumstances of the flight but did not indicate what caused the crash. 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. Calcasieu Sheriff Tony Mancuso got emotional while speaking Wednesday morning at a news conference. HACKBERRY, La. 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. (KPLC) - Two bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of a plane that went down near Hackberry on Tuesday, Cameron Sheriff Don Johnson said. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. AGENCY:Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.ACTION:Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).SUMMARY:The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Textron Aviation Inc. (Textron) Models 180, 180A, 180B, 180C, 180D, 180E, 180F, 180G, 180H, 180J, 180K, 182, 182A, 182B, 182C, 182D, 185, 185A, 185B, 185C, 185D, 185E, A185E, and A185F airplanes. Port Allen Pelicans basketball team soaring toward fourth-straight state title, Sample duo leading Scotlandville into playoffs, For help accessing the WBRZ-TV Public File, contact: Joey Verrett at, LSU gymnastics club meet brings tourists to downtown Baton Rouge. Copyright 2021 KPLC. Rock was a member of LSU Law Center Board of Trustees, American Board of Trial Advocates and the Louisiana Association for Justice. Hes the guy who trains everybody to do what we do. Don was a member of the Krewe of Contraband. Controls were likely held full aft all the way to impact. On Feb. 2, 2021, an aircraft went down, killing both men on board, Rock Palermo and Don Clements. The Untold Story of Roberto Clemente's Plane Crash Litigation by John Racanelli January 7, 2014 The Fatal Crash Roberto Clemente was both a remarkable ballplayer and genuine folk hero. The plane, a single-engine Cessna 182 four-seater, crashed on a small island between Hackberry and Big Lake, near Pete Seay Circle. Don was the epitome of what a student should be. Nose down attitude would be even more likely that the pilots were fixated on full aft elevator. whatever you told him to study, he studied it. 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. This is the perfect weekend to get outdoors! No CFI would loop or allow his student to loop a 182.Not surprised that your "gut feeling" was criticized. He was a lifetime member of the Louisiana Coastal Conservation Association (CCA), which is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of Louisianas marine resources. Certified flight instructors who own Plane Simple Flight School learned from Palermo. My sincere condolences to the families. Thrown blade and resulting immediate out of balance could have ripped an engine mount, canted the engine in some way creating horrendous aerodynamics and an unrecoverable dive? woman accused of using aunts debit card for 136 DoorDash orders held on preset $18 million bond, Juvenile injured after homemade pipe bomb detonated, police say. Loss of elevator authority as speed reduced at 4500 feet. So airspeed likely high and elevator authority should have been present. He served as secretary of the board of the Lake Charles Regional Airport Authority. Another owner of the plane flew with Clements and Palermo the day before the accident and didnt report anything of concern. 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. Kerbow was an instructor for Clements, who was a newly licensed pilot. They say Palermo sometimes helped out at their school, Plane Simple Flight School. When the last jumper goes out or you're doing a hammerhead stall in a glider and the aircraft is simply falling out of the sky, pointed straight down at the ground, you get comfortable waiting for the wing to start flying before easing back on the elevator. Ive known Dan a few years although I havent talked to him in awhile but if he said he found it then Id say he found it. Rock Palermo and Don Clements. He was preceded in death by his father, Richard Don Clements, Sr. but is survived by his mother, Carolyn Joy Templeton Clements and his brother, Kirk Alan Clements, both of whom reside in Denton, Texas. Two of the propeller blades remained attached to the propeller hub and one blade was not recovered. The following individuals will serve as pallbearers: Jay Bice, Kevin Derousselle, John Emerson, Ellis Hassien, Tony Mancuso, Rob Parrish, Poncho Seaford, and Matt Vezinot. On Feb. 2, 2021, an aircraft went down, killing both men on board, Rock Palermo and Don Clements. 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. 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. Youll never convince me other than it was a catastrophic failure of the aircraft because Rock knew exactly what to do, said Thompson. (KPLC) - Two bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of a plane that went down near Hackberry Tuesday, Cameron Sheriff Don Johnson said. I suggested this in comments a couple of other places, and every time I've gotten ripped on about how wrong I was, and I probably am wrong, but I had a gut feeling about this when I first heard of it, two guys in a modern regular nothing special airplane doing minor training, returning to the airport, aircraft was 4,000 AGL then inexplicably nosedives into the ground, severe clear visibility calm winds, no obvious weather or mechanical reason for the crash. As an. They consider him a mentor and the best pilot they knew. 1 LSU's big win over Butler. Looks like they circled a couple times and tried to head back to the airport. His love for the Calcasieu Parish Sheriffs Department enabled him to serve his community as Captain of the Aviation Unit.Rock graduated from LSU Law School in 1992 and from LSU with a bachelors degree in 1987. 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). Rock Palermo and Don Clements were killed Tuesday night when the small plane they were in crashed in Cameron Parish. Two bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of a plane that went down near Hackberry Tuesday, KPLC reports. The empennage was crushed and distorted. His 25 pound mass half scale model Spacewalker is just six percent of half the mass of the 800 lb full scale Spacewalker. 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 airplane impacted soft ground on an island about 1.5 nautical miles northeast of Hackberry. Visitation will be at the church from 12:00-3:00 pm. Palermo was an attorney for the Calcasieu Parish Sheriffs Office, they said. Philip Clements, a 62-year-old Chester Township man, was killed in the crash and was the lone passenger on the plane. Honorary Pallbearers are William Don Clements, William Edward Shaddock, Jr., Stephen Gorham Shaddock, William Edward Shaddock II MD, Brian Ray Jones and William Craig Jones. Just one comment, not trying to be judgmental. 1 LSU's big win over Butler. lol) to give me the answer. Authorities have identified the victims as Rock Palermo and Richard Don Clements. He kept me composed. Two of the propeller blades remained attached to the propeller hub and one blade was not recovered." Clemente's plane was allegedly "unfit" to fly. Would like to ask for a line of discussion about the lack of a mayday call, which hasn't been previously discussed in this thread. The families have been notified, the sheriff said. Look it up. Two witnesses told investigators that the plane plunged nose-down, without any rotation. The engine was unable to rotate through due to the impact damage. Authorities first got a call around 5:47 p.m. Tuesday of a plane flying low, then disappearing, Cameron Parish Sheriff Don Johnson said Tuesday evening. Copyright 2021 KPLC. 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. [3] Clements-Mann graduated from Texas Tech University in 1968 and received her medical degree from the University of Texas in 1972. The Global Asset Management Group family is saddened by the loss of our dearest friend and colleague, Don Clements. Well I guess everything is possible until we know for sure: suicide, murder, kamikaze, paranormal activity, higher calling, medical, etc. Nothing in the report suggests "airplane attitude was flat with nose close to the horizon. @ http://kirtlandflightcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/C182-POH.pdf notes that "Prompt lowering of the nose to maintain airspeed and establish a glide attitude is the first response to an engine failure" and a Figure indicating at a 'speed 70 kias, prop windmilling, flaps up, zero wind" the ideal glide distance from 4,000 AGL to ground is 6 miles." All rights reserved. LAKE CHARLES, La. Dockets reflect additional in-depth efforts made between initial examination and completion of the investigations.The nonsensical "flat disc effect" story is on par with the critic's untrue claim about finding the missing blade from this 182 or the untrue claim that the pilot of N3RB murdered a co-pilot. Flight Track. As a result of inadequate maintenance, the aircraft's No. 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 . A comment was made about the NTSB being derelict in not actually visiting the accident site. This proposed AD was prompted by a report of cracks found in the tailcone and horizontal stabilizer attachment structure. Sept. 14, 2014 10:37 PM PT. (KPLC) -The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the deadly crash that claimed the life of two well known citizens in our area. The Global Asset Management Group family is saddened by the loss of our dearest friend and colleague, Don Clements. 4 LSU women's basketball Watch the 2 Your Health report for Friday, March 3, 2023. On Wednesday, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancusos voice broke as he told reporters that one victim, Rock Palermo, was the departments pilot, attorney and friend.