- Date
- July 20, 2024, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Mansfield, MO
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N919PSQuicksilver GT-400
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Loss of control in flight
- 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 FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240720021569A
- Case key
- 194752
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 maintain control after takeoff, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
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
The pilot was on the first familiarization flight in his newly acquired airplane, having previous experience in a slower model of the airplane. He reported that the taxi and takeoff were normal, but during the climb, the airplane stalled and broke hard to the right. The pilot could not recover from the stall and the airplane impacted the ground, resulting in substantial damage to the empennage, wings, and the front of the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N919PS
- Reported as
- Quicksilver GT-400
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1234 PS
- Built
- 1984
- Airframe hours
- 361
- Engine
- Rotax 503, 50 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental light sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · May 27, 2023
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 03B · Mansfield Municipal Airport, runway 25, 3,000 × 50 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- 65
- Injuries
- Serious
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Seat
- Single
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 80 total · 1 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.08 inHg
- Observed at
- KSGF, 37 nm away
- METAR
- KSGF 202252Z 06005KT 10SM CLR 26/16 A3008 RMK AO2 SLP176 T02560161
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 22, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.9 MB 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.