- Date
- August 31, 1983, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Cottage Grove, WI
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N4244RMockrud Volksplane
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830831045539A
- Case key
- 12326
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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.
Analysis
The owner of the new home built acft had given the plt permission to taxi the plane, but not to takeoff. The plt stated that he inadvertently became airborne while making a high speed taxi check, then the eng lost power. A witness stated that the acft became airborne when it was aprx half way down the rwy, then it climbed about 30 ft, traveled aprx 250 ft off the end of the rwy & began losing altitude. The plt initiated a left turn & crashed in an open field. The acft had no previous flt time & the plt had no previous flt time in the make & model. During the investigation, the plt & owner could not be contacted to verify the circumstances of the reported eng failures.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4244R
- Reported as
- Mockrud Volksplane
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 22
- Engine
- Volkswagen 1, 60 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- Stanley Mockrud
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · July 13, 1983
- Airport
- 52C · Flying Hoof, runway 9, 2,650 × 60 ft, asphalt
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
- 64
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 34,555 total · 33,355 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MKE, 45 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.