- Date
- April 29, 2008, 19:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Greenwood, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N930LAEvektor Aerotechnik SportStar Plus
- Defining event
- Standing-engine(s) operating: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 23, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 68067
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during engine run-up.
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 student pilot was preparing to do the engine run-up of the light-sport airplane by increasing the engine to 4,000 rpms. He reported that his right foot slipped off the brake pedal and his foot partially came out of his shoe. While attempting to reset his foot in his shoe, he released the brake. The airplane turned and went off the paved surface and into a cornfield. The front of the airplane sustained substantial damage when the front wheel/gear struck the field.
Factual narrative
The student pilot was preparing to do the engine run-up of the light-sport airplane by increasing the engine rpm's to 4,000 rpm's. He reported that his right foot slipped off the brake pedal and his foot partially came out of his shoe. While attempting to reset his foot in his shoe, he released the brake. The airplane turned and went off the paved surface and went into a cornfield. The front of the airplane sustained substantial damage when the front wheel/gear struck the field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N930LA
- Reported as
- Evektor Aerotechnik SportStar Plus
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20070930
- Airframe hours
- 109
- Engine
- Rotax 912 ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Kevin S. Bandy
- Registered owner
- Fast Track Flight LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 2008
- Departed
- HFY · Greenwood, IN
- Destination
- Greenwood, IN
- Airport
- HFY · Greenwood Municipal, runway 10
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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 44
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Sport pilot
- Flight hours
- 23 total · 23 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
Other investigations on N930LA · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.