- Date
- December 27, 1984, 12:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Madisonville, TN
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- UNREGGyrocopter B-8M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 6587
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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.
Airframe/component/system failure/malfunction
Flt control syst,rudder control - failure,total
Flt control syst,rudder control - overloadCause
Cyclic - improper use ofCause
Inadequate training
Propeller/rotor contact to person
Flt control syst,rudder control - failure,total
Rotorcraft flight controls - improper use ofCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ground
Analysis
Student pilot attempting flight in gyrocopter loss control cusing main rotor system to contact the rudder system. Pilot was not qualified to conduct this flight. A/c was not assigned an identification number.
Aircraft
- Registration
- UNREG
- Reported as
- Gyrocopter B-8M
- Category
- Gyroplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- Mcculloch 4318B, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kenneth Yearwood
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- Madisonville, TN
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 50 total · 10 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TYS, 30 nm away