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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Amtrac ELITE532 · El Paso, TX · April 7, 1990

Date
April 7, 1990 · 12:20 local
Place
El Paso, TX
Airport
West Texas Airport
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
NR845
Reported as
Amtrac ELITE532
Reported engine
ROTAX ROTAX532
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
1
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Unskilled and not rated in type. Induced oscillations leading to negative g loads on rotors and impact with prop.

As the FAA filed it

UNSKILLED AND NOT RATED IN TYPE. INDUCED OSCILLATIONS LEADING TO NEGATIVE G LOADS ON ROTORS AND IMPACT WITH PROP.