19980828022479A

Acft crashed on landing. (-23)on 8/29/98 the pilot david paul poppe, was approaching to land at an unimproved gravel bar landing strip that was approx. 8-900 'long. He approached with full flaps. He originally was going to do a low approach, but instead, touched down, when he applied power for the go-around the airplane wouldn't climb out of the ground effect. The tail wheel impacted a ditch, then the left main gear separated. The right gear bent up, the aircraft struck some willows, at about 1500 feet from the original impact point, at which, at this point, it settled onto the brush and came to a stop. At about the 1000 foot mark the engine had stopped from tree impact. The flaps were still full down.(.4) the private pilot was landing to the west on the 900 feet long off airport site in a tailwheel equipped airplane. He stated that after touchdown he realized he would be unable to stop the airplane before reaching the end of the landing site, and attempted to abort the landing. He said that he applied full takeoff power, and the airplane became airborne, but failed to gain sufficient altitude to clear rising terrain at the end of the site. The airplane collided with a dry creek bed, and sustained substantial damage to the wings, and fuselage. Th e pilot noted that wind conditions at the time of the accident were estimated to be from the southeast at 5 knots, with peak gusts to 10 knots. The pilot noted that there were no preaccident mechanical anomalies with the airplane.