# Accident 20180505004669A: Exhib-Exper EXHIB-EXPER, Sault Ste Marie, MI, May 5, 2018

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 5, 2018, 10:00 local time
- Place: Sault Ste Marie, MI
- Airport: Sault Ste Marie Municipal/Sanderson
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Takeoff: Climb Out
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 46.4792° N, 84.3684° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at SAULT STE MARIE MUNI/SANDERSON FLD (ANJ), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=46.4792&lon=-84.3684&mi=10
- Aircraft: C-FNKZ (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: EXHIB-EXPER EXHIB-EXPER
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 2
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot, unknown or foreign certificate
- Pilot flight hours: 500 total, 150 in this make and model, 5 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20180505004669A

## Narrative

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

ON MAY 5, 2018, AT 1002 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME, AN AMATEUR-BUILT BELAIR RAVEN AIRPLANE, CANADIAN REGISTRATION C-FNKZ, IMPACTED TERRAIN DURING TAKEOFF FROM SAULT STE MARIE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT (ANJ), SAULT STE MARIE, MICHIGAN. THE PILOT AND PILOT-RATED PASSENGER WERE FATALLY INJURED, AND THE AIRPLANE WAS SUBSTANTIALLY DAMAGED. THE AIRPLANE WAS REGISTERED TO A PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL AND OPERATED BY THE PILOT UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE 14, CODE OF FEDERAL

REGULATIONS, PART 91, AS A PERSONAL FLIGHT. DAY VISUAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS EXISTED AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT FOR THE LOCAL FLIGHT, WHICH DEPARTED WITHOUT A FLIGHT PLAN.

ACCORDING TO SEVERAL WITNESSES, THE AIRPLANE TAXIED TO AND DEPARTED FROM RUNWAY 32. AFTER CLIMBING WITH NOSE HIGH ATTITUDE UNTIL ABOUT 100 FT ABOVE GROUND LEVEL, THE AIRPLANE MADE A

SHARP RIGHT TURN. THE AIRPLANE CONTINUED TURNING RIGHT AND ENTERED A STEEP NOSE DOWN DIVE UNTIL GROUND IMPACT, DAMAGING BOTH WINGS AND FUSELAGE.

## NTSB investigation

None matched to this report by aircraft and date. Search the NTSB's own records: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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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