# Accident 19961013032009A: Amtr SA300, Eaton Rapids, MI, October 13, 1996

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: October 13, 1996, 14:59 local time
- Place: Eaton Rapids, MI
- Airport: Skyway Estates Airport
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 42.5093° N, 84.6493° W: From the FAA, an estimate near the named town, within about 3 miles
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.5093&lon=-84.6493&mi=10
- Aircraft: N7691, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N7691-1997-04-07) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Dellicker STARDUSTER TOO SA300 (registry code 8660228, https://openairdocs.org/model/dellicker-starduster-too-sa300) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: AMTR SA300
- Reported engine: LYC O540*
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 2
- Pilot flight hours: 2,630 total, 145 in this make and model, 22 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB CHI97LA010](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI97LA010) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19961013032009A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

AIRCRAFT ATTEMPTING A BARREL ROLL. CRASHED AND BURNED. (-23) AIRCRAFT WAS OBSERVED BY PILOT/WITNESS TAKING OFF ON RUNWAY 26 AT SKYWAY ESTATES ARPT, IN EATON RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN. AIRCRAFT WAS OBSERVED, AFTER WHEELS BROKE GROUND CONTACT, LEVELING OFF AND BUILDING AIRSPEED JUST ABOVE RUNWAY. AT END OF RUNWAY AIRCRAFT ENTERED A STEEP CLIMB AND AFTER APPROX. 200-400' OF CLIMB, FELL STRAIGHT DOWN AND CONTACTED THE GROUND. ACFT DESTROYED DUE TO POST CRASH FIRE.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (.4) A PRIVATE PILOT, WHO WAS A WITNESS TO THE ACCIDENT, REPORTED THAT HE OBSERVED THE AIRPLANE DEPART. 'AFTER BREAKING GROUND CONTACT, THE AIRPLANE LEVELED OFF, GAINED AIRSPEED, AND THEN NEAR THE END OF THE RUNWAY, THE PILOT PULLED UP SHARPLY INTO A STEEP CLIMB. AFTER A COUPLE OF HUNDRED OF FEET OF CLIMB [THE AIRPLANE] ENTERED A STEEP RIGHT TURN OF APPROXIMATELY 45 DEGREES. THE AIRCRAFT LOST CONTROL AND FELL TO THE GROUND AND CRASHED.'  THE WITNESS REPORTED THAT HE DID NOT HEAR ANY 'UNUSUAL' SOUND, AND HE BELIEVED THE ENGINE WAS AT FULL POWER. A SECOND WITNESS REPORTED THAT HE NOTICED AN AIRPLANE 'GOING 90 DEGREES STRAIGHT UP AND STRAIGHT DOWN.'  ONE PROPELLER BLADE WAS BENT NEAR THE ROOT IN THE AFT DIRECTION AND EXHIBITED MINOR TORSIONAL BENDING. THE OTHER BLADE EXHIBITED MINOR 'S' SHAPED BENDING.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB CHI97LA010](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI97LA010), Oct 13, 1996: Dellicker Starduster TOO SA300 (N7691), Eaton Rapids, MI, destroyed, 2 fatal. Probable cause: the pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed and subsequent inadvertent stall of the airplane. A factor was the ostentatious display.

## Other reports on N7691 (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19820609036479I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19820609036479I), Jun 9, 1982: Amtrso STARDUSTER2 (N7691), Nederland, TX, Minor damage. Wind gust on landing roll. Lost control and ground looped. Eight knot wind reported.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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