- Date
- July 9, 1983, 14:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Huntersville, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N16SEEames Acro Sport
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830709034589A
- Case key
- 6122
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft collided with a tree during inverted flt over an arpt. The pilot had made several aerobatic maneuvers over the airfield. On the last pass the acft was inverted at low alt as it proceeded down the rwy it drifted west about 200 ft and hit a tree near the top. The pilot rolled right side up and made a high speed wheel landing without further incidentthe FAA confirmed that a low alt waiver had not been obtained prior to this flt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N16SE
- Reported as
- Eames Acro Sport
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2329
- Airframe hours
- 110
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-AHA, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Larry W. Barger
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 4, 1983 · 35 hours before
- Airport
- NC05 · Bradford, runway 23, 3,850 × 150 ft
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 45
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 1,044 total · 934 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CLT, 14 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.
Other investigations on N16SE · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.