- Date
- May 13, 1982, 17:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Brookville, OH
- Injuries
- 4 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N4522EGrumman AA5
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 13, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820513015679A
- Case key
- 70044
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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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Loss of control - in flight
Weather condition - high density altitudeFactor
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Stall - inadvertentFactor
In flight collision with terrain/water
Terrain condition - open fieldFactor
Terrain condition - softFactor
Analysis
On takeoff with 3 passengers and full fuel the pilot pulled the nose up and pushed the nose back down to build airpseed. The aircraft became uncontrollable, veered to the left, nosed over impacting the ground left wing first. The field elevation is 1040 feet MSL and the temperature was 87 degrees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4522E
- Reported as
- Grumman AA5
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA5B1082
- Airframe hours
- 841
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Brookville Airpark
- Registered owner
- Brookville Airpark
- Departed
- I62 · Brookville, OH
- Destination
- I62 · Brookville, OH
- Airport
- I62 · Brookville Airpark, runway 27, 2,550 × 75 ft, macadam
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 283 total · 12 in this make and model · 174 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Temperature
- 189 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.