- Date
- March 10, 1984, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Apex, NC
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N83798Pitts Special S2A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840310008159A
- Case key
- 6431
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The acft made a hard landing and damaged a brake. During the second landing the brakes were found to be malfunctioning and as the rudder became ineffectual the acft left the rwy and collided with a hanger. The owner of the acft was improperly acting as an instructor to a private plt. The owner was not a CFI.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N83798
- Reported as
- Pitts Special S2A (SPECIAL S2)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 20935
- Airframe hours
- 474
- Engine
- Lycoming AEIO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Vernon L. Cox
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 16, 1983
- Airport
- N81 · Cox Field
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
- 54
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 5,235 total · 405 in this make and model · 81 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Temperature
- -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.