- Date
- August 3, 1985, 12:16 local (16:16 UTC)
- Place
- Greenville, SC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N3986KEipper MX-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850803036069A
- Case key
- 6847
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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.
Loss of control - in flight
Misc eqpt/furnishings - deployed inadvertentlyCause
Tie down - inadequateCause
Equipment,other - conflictingCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Terrain condition - groundFactor
Descent - uncontrolledCause
Analysis
While climbing altitude the parachute , which was secured to the right seat, was inadvertently deployed and became tangled in the propeller. The acft descended to the ground while inverted at a slow rate.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3986K
- Reported as
- Eipper MX-2
- Category
- Ultralight
- Serial number
- 1405
- Airframe hours
- 140
- Engine
- Rotax 503, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Benjamin R. Mull
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 24
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 140 total · 140 in this make and model · 140 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 30° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GSP, 12 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.