- Date
- July 4, 1986, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Aurora, IL
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4976XEipper Mxii
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860704030409A
- Case key
- 13289
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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
During cruise flight the ultralight experienced an inadvertent deployment of the drag chute accompanied by a failure of the drag chute to inflate. This resulted in an uncontrolled descent and subsequent impact with the terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4976X
- Reported as
- Eipper Mxii
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1903
- Airframe hours
- 180
- Engine
- Rotax 503, 46 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dennis W. Stacy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 19, 1984 · 65 hours before
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 286 total · 163 in this make and model · 255 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DPA, 11 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.