The Accident

I took off around 8:30 and flew west, trying to find a way to turn south around the storm system. Unable to find an opening, I turned back east, and knowing the tops were around 10,000 feet, I decided to climb over the storm. At 13,500 feet, I leveled out and saw what looked like an opening South. After a couple of minutes, the opening closed up, and I had a bad feeling and decided to do a 180 to turn around. In a steep right turn and at a high rate of speed, I hit a cell, and suddenly I was out of control, pushed straight down wide open.

I pulled the power back and slowly pulled the nose up so the wings wouldn't separate, and the Aerostar came out of the high-speed dive and leveled out, and that is when I impacted the ground, gear up, and slid 75 yards before it came to a stop. I was able to climb out, wanting to get away from the airplane in case of fire. Furthermore, I realized that I had injured my back on impact and couldn't walk.