- Date
- April 14, 1984, 13:05 local (18:05 UTC)
- Place
- Kill Devil Hill, NC
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N92RBBrown, R. M. JR. Monnett Moni
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840414014139A
- Case key
- 6439
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 was the 4th acft to take off of 7 scheduled to make a formation fly-by of the wright brothers national memorial. As the acft took off to join up for the flt, a thick low fog bank rolled in. The other acft departed the area, but the plt attempted to return to the arpt under the fog. The acft was observed making a left hand circle over the nw corner of the arpt. About 1/2 thru a 2nd 360 deg turn, the acft entered a very steep dive, collided with a tree &then fell to the ground. The other acft had avoided the fog & were able to land shortly after the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N92RB
- Reported as
- Brown, R. M. JR. Monnett Moni (MONNETT MO)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 73
- Airframe hours
- 62
- Engine
- Iame KEM-107-E, 25 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Raymond M. Brown, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · April 6, 1984 · 1 hours before
- Airport
- FFA · First Flight
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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 107 total · 62 in this make and model · 75 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 8 knots
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ECG, 29 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.