- Date
- May 29, 2010, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Waxahachie, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N9870VHolden Frank Joseph Rans S6ES
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 12, 2010
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20100529039629A
- Case key
- 76208
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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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to attain adequate airspeed during takeoff, resulting in a stall/msuh.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
While taking off everything seemed normal until rotation. the pilot then noticed that the airplane's nose seemed heavy and slow to lift off. He lowered the nose to gain airspeed and rotated again to achieve only a "very flat fly out." About 100 feet above the ground he initiated a right turn to avoid power lines. As he rolled out he was at about 40 miles per hour on the airspeed indicator and he could not control the pitch with full aft stick. The airplane started to descend and impacted the ground in a hay field. Examination of the airplane revealed no preexisting anomalies. According to the airplane designer, best climb is attained at 65 knots and at 45 knots the elevator will feel mushy. The pilot and owner did not submit a NTSB Form 6120.1.
Factual narrative
While taking off everything seemed normal until rotation. the pilot then noticed that the airplane's nose seemed heavy and slow to lift off. He lowered the nose to gain airspeed and rotated again to achieve only a "very flat fly out." About 100 feet above the ground he initiated a right turn to avoid power lines. As he rolled out he was at about 40 miles per hour on the airspeed indicator and he could not control the pitch with full aft stick. The airplane started to descend and impacted the ground in a hay field. Examination of the airplane revealed no preexisting anomalies. According to the airplane designer, best climb is attained at 65 knots and at 45 knots the elevator will feel mushy. The pilot and owner did not submit a NTSB Form 6120.1.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9870V
- Reported as
- Holden Frank Joseph Rans S6ES
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 312941
- Engine
- Bombardier ROTAX (ALL), reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bramall Buster I
- Registered owner
- Bramall Buster I
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- N/A · Waxahachie, TX
- Destination
- N/A · Waxahachie, TX
- Airport
- N/A · Private Airstrip, runway 18, 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
- Age
- 35
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown
- Flight hours
- 3,600 total · 110 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 30, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 183 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.