# NTSB ATL00LA068: Double D Enterprises Rans S-12, N6279D, Baneberry, TN, June 26, 2000

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report
- Date: June 26, 2000, 14:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place: Baneberry, TN
- Coordinates: 36.09077, -83.289367 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=36.0908&lon=-83.2894&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report March 2, 2001
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 51037
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ATL00LA068
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/51037/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL00LA068

## Probable cause

The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions. Factors were the trees, and gusting winds.

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- In flight encounter with weather, landing
  - weather condition - downdraft (contributing factor)
- In flight collision with object, go-around (vfr)
  - object - tree(s) (contributing factor)
  - compensation for wind conditions - inadequate, pilot in command (cause)
  - weather condition - gusts (contributing factor)

## 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](https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N6279D-2013-08-06), registration cancelled 2013-08-06, S/N 0195551, built 1995 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: Double D Enterprises RANS S-12
- Registry model: [Double D Entrps/Desutter D RANS S-12 AIRILE](https://openairdocs.org/model/double-d-entrps-desutter-d-rans-s-12-airile) (registry code 05603UR) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)](https://openairdocs.org/engine/bombardier-rotax-all) (registry code 09050, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number: 0195551
- Airframe hours: 110
- Engines: 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

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 59; 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 (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 20000626013259A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000626013259A), Jun 26, 2000: Amtr RANSS12AIRLE, Baneberry, TN, Substantial damage. (-23) Practicing low approach to Private strip, the pilot was going around, and encountered a down draft which exceeded the available climb capability of the…

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.

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