- Date
- June 19, 1990, 19:30 local (Jun 20, 1990, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Pell City, AL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7ZSBreezy MRU
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900619023589A
- Case key
- 8089
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed.
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
It was reported that the private pilot was flying his first solo flight in the experimental airplane. Witnesses watched as the pilot flew touch and go approaches in a right traffic pattern. While on the third downwind, as the airplane approached the position for the base leg, it rolled violently to the left and descended to impact. No discrepancies were found with the engine nor the flight controls.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7ZS
- Reported as
- Breezy MRU
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- DB-100
- Airframe hours
- 2,071
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- William H. Love
- Registered owner
- Sammie N. Moore
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 26, 1990 · 10 hours before
- Airport
- PLR · St. Clair Co, runway 2, 4,202 × 80 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,000 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 10° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ANB, 30 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.