- Date
- November 7, 2010, 15:55 local (21:55 UTC)
- Place
- Winnie, TX
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N95087Six Chuter SR7
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of lift
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 12, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20101107052729A
- Case key
- 77743
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 collapse of the powered parachute's canopy on short final for undetermined reasons, resulting in a loss of lift.
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 on short final to land at the airport, the light-sport powered parachute's canopy collapsed, resulting in a loss of lift and a hard landing. A postaccident examination of the airframe and engine revealed no mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
While on short final to land at the airport, the light-sport powered parachute's canopy collapsed resulting in a loss of lift and a hard landing. The uncertificated pilot and one passenger were seriously injured. An examination of the airframe and engine by a responding Federal Aviation Administration inspector did not reveal any pre-impact anomalies.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95087
- Reported as
- Six Chuter SR7
- Category
- Powered parachute
- Serial number
- 98-1864-2SR7
- Engine
- Rotax 582, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Departed
- T90 · Winnie, TX
- Destination
- T90 · Winnie, TX
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- T90 · Winnie Stowell
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
- Flight hours
- 0 total · 0 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 32 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.29 inHg
- Observed at
- KBPT, 22 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 27, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 29 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.