- Date
- September 21, 1984, 10:15 local (15:15 UTC)
- Place
- Valparaiso, IN
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N57SPSteen Skybolt
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840921050509A
- Case key
- 12783
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.
Hard landing
Flare - improperFactor
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Dragged wing,rotor,pod,float or tail/skid
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - not correctedCause
Aborted landing - uncontrolledCause
Analysis
The acft dragged a wing and flipped over after the plt made a hard landing and lost control. The plt attempted a go-around in an uncontrolled situation. The acft was destroyed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N57SP
- Reported as
- Steen Skybolt
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2051
- Airframe hours
- 334
- Engine
- Franklin GA-350-C1, 175 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- John L. Goodpaster
- Registered owner
- John L. Goodpaster
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 1, 1984 · 15 hours before
- Airport
- VPZ · Porter Co., runway 9, 6,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
N57SPRegistered now · Prest STEEN SKYBOLTAirframe modelPrest STEEN SKYBOLTEngine modelLycoming IO-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
- 60
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Expired
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 8,120 total · 79 in this make and model · 7,858 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SBN, 30 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.