- Date
- December 3, 1988, 15:02 local (20:02 UTC)
- Place
- Albemarle, NC
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N4831YFlagg Teenie TWO
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881203052389A
- Case key
- 7847
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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
Reportedly, the 150-hour pilot owner was performing a high speed taxi run to get acquainted with the airplane and its controls. The airplane taxiied down runway 22, using 3000 feet of the 4700 foot runway and suddenly became airborne. The flight continued to an estimated altitude of 60 to 70 feet whereupon the airplane rolled to the left and pitched down and contacted the soft ground in an extreme nose down attitude, on airport property. Witnesses who had flown the airplane only minutes before said no change was made to the power setting of the engine from beginning to contact with the ground. Examination of the wreckage disclosed no evidence of system or mechanical failure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4831Y
- Reported as
- Flagg Teenie TWO
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 15-1992
- Airframe hours
- 110
- Engine
- Volkswagen 1600-CC, 60 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dennis And David Mabry
- Registered owner
- Dennis R Marbry
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1988 · 20 hours before
- Airport
- 6A6 · Albemarle-Stanly Cty Arpt, runway 22, 4,700 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 26
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 150 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CLT
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.