- Date
- July 26, 1986, 14:10 local (19:10 UTC)
- Place
- New Baden, IL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N64HWWoodrow Starduster SA-100
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860726035009A
- Case key
- 13340
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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 single seat, home built, acft offered to allow a navy F-14 plt to fly the plane. The owner made a shortflt, then proceeded to give the F-14 plt a cockpit check. The check-out explaination included such things as the flt characteristics, takeoff & apch speeds, & power settings. This was the navy plt's 1st flt in this make & model of acft. About 5 min after takeoff, the acft was observed to enter a slow roll as it was heading twd the arpt. The maneuver was initiated at about 300 ft AGL. As the acft rolled, it entered about a 20 deg nose down attitude & impacted the ground before the plt could recover. No preimpacty part failure or malfunction was found during the investigation. This was theplt's 1st known flt in a civilian or piston eng acft. He did not possess an FAA plt certificate.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64HW
- Reported as
- Woodrow Starduster SA-100 (STARDUSTER)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- HW101
- Airframe hours
- 467
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-D, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Howard M. Woodrow
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · May 13, 1986 · 8 hours before
- Airport
- RLA · Fischer, runway 36, 2,400 × ft, grass/turf
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
- 25
- Certificate
- Military
- Medical
- Unknown, Invalid Medical for flight
- Seat
- Center
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 469 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 8° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BLV, 8 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.
Other investigations on N64HW · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.