- Date
- May 19, 1984, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- White Bear Lake, MN
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N12GMeyers LIL Toot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840519017499A
- Case key
- 12617
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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 engine power
Reason for occurrence undeterminedCause
Loss of control - in flight
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Stall - inadvertentCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ground
Analysis
Plt reported power loss while on initial climb. The left wing contacted the ground and the acft cartwheeled. Examinationof aircraft by FAA disclosed no malfunction of aircraft or of powerplant.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N12G
- Reported as
- Meyers LIL Toot
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 01
- Airframe hours
- 144
- Engine
- Volkswagen 65, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- J. O. Michaud
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Destination
- BBB · Benson, MN
- Airport
- 74Y · North Port, runway 31, 2,507 × 102 ft, grass/turf
N12GRegistration cancelled Jun 7, 2013 · Little Abbie KW-1Airframe modelLittle Abbie KW-1Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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
- 61
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 9,800 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- STP, 10 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.