- Date
- July 4, 2021, 19:47 local (Jul 5, 2021, 00:47 UTC)
- Place
- Ste. Genevieve, MO
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- UNREGQuad City Challenger
- Defining event
- Unknown: Unknown or undetermined
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 103423
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Probable cause
An impact with terrain for reasons that could not be determined based on available evidence.
Findings · 1
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
The non-certificated pilot was conducting a local flight near a friend’s residence in an unregistered airplane. There were no witnesses to the accident. Following the accident, a local law enforcement officer briefly talked to the pilot, but no information was provided during this, or subsequent interview attempts to explain the sequence of events that preceded the accident. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and forward fuselage. Based on the available evidence, the reason the airplane impacted terrain could not be determined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- UNREG
- Reported as
- Quad City Challenger (II)
- Category
- Unknown, amateur-built
- Serial number
- Unknown
- Engine
- Rotax, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- None
- Departed
- PCD · Perryville, MO
- Equipment
- Unknown
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 62
- Injuries
- Serious
- Medical
- Unknown
- Seat
- Center
- Restraint
- None
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- KFAM, 22 nm away
- METAR
- KFAM 050056Z AUTO 16003KT 10SM CLR 27/18 A3003 RMK AO2 SLP172 T02720178
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 5, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.9 MB in all.