- Date
- September 5, 1982, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Litchfield, IL
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N41EBRutan Varieze
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 5, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820905043889A
- Case key
- 71439
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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.
Hard landing
Airspeed - misjudgedCause
Altitude - misjudgedCause
Stall - inadvertentCause
Go-around - attempted
Gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overloadCause
Landing gear,nose gear - overloadCause
Analysis
The pilot had received 20 minutes of instruction in this aircraft prior to his solo flight. The pilot made 8-10 passes at the runway prior to his landing attempt. On approach the aircraft stalled and impacted the runway causing the main gear to collapse.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N41EB
- Reported as
- Rutan Varieze
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 855
- Airframe hours
- 175
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Emerald J. Ullman
- Registered owner
- Eugene Boos
- Departed
- 3LF · Litchfield, IL
- Destination
- 3LF · Litchfield, IL
- Airport
- 3LF · Litchfield Muni, runway 27, 3,900 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 808 total · 1 in this make and model · 766 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 176 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- STL, 20 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.