- Date
- June 26, 2000, 14:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Baneberry, TN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6279DDouble D Enterprises Rans S-12
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 2, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20000626013259A
- Case key
- 51037
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions. Factors were the trees, and gusting winds.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
According to the pilot, while practicing low approaches to a private strip, he encountered a down draft which exceeded the available climb capability of the airplane. The airplane settled into trees bending the left wing up to about 90 degrees. Weather at the time of the accident was; wind 230 degrees at 9 knots, gusting to 14 knots, and visibility at 10 statute miles.
Factual narrative
On June 26, 2000, at 1400 eastern daylight time, a Double D Enterprises Rans S-12, homebuilt airplane, N6279D, collided with trees while executing a go-around at a private grass strip in Baneberry, Tennessee. The airplane was operated by the pilot under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91, and visual flight rules. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the personal flight. The commercial pilot was not injured and the airplane sustained substantial damage. The flight had originated from Morristown Airport in Morristown, Tennessee at 1300.
According to the pilot, while practicing low approaches to a private strip, he encountered a down draft which exceeded the available climb capability of the aircraft. The airplane settled into trees, bending the left wing up to about 90 degrees.
Weather at the time of the accident in Morristown, Tennessee 11 miles south of the grass strip was reporting; wind 230 degrees at 9 knots, gusting to 14 knots, and visibility at 10 statute miles.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6279D
- Reported as
- Double D Enterprises Rans S-12
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 0195551
- Airframe hours
- 110
- Engine
- Rotax 618, 74 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Philip H. Kammann
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 20, 1999 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- MOR · Morristown, TN
- Destination
- PVT · TN
- Airport
- PVT · Baneberry
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 59
- Certificates
- Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,340 total · 10 in this make and model · 1,000 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 9 knots, gusting 14
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MOR, 11 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.