- Date
- May 1, 1988, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Goldsboro, MD
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N8271ACessna 170B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11408
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
Lift-off - prematureCause
Aborted takeoff - not performedFactor
Stall/mush - inadvertentCause
Nose over
Terrain condition - softFactor
Analysis
The plt said he unsuccessfully tried to climb in ground-effect after the acft lifted off before adequate flying speed was obtained. The acft drifted right of the rwy and touched down in a plowed field where it nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8271A
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 25123
- Airframe hours
- 1,750
- Engine
- Continental O-300A, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- J. Christian Fenger
- Registered owner
- Stephen Applegate
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 4, 1988
- Destination
- Laurel, DE
- Airport
- NONE · John Brown, runway 4, 2,400 × ft, grass/turf
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 319 total · 11 in this make and model · 301 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SBY