- Date
- July 17, 1986, 21:35 local (Jul 18, 1986, 01:35 UTC)
- Place
- Frankfort, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1402XLake LA-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860717033959A
- Case key
- 13487
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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 plt rprtd that during an attempted go-around, a crosswind caught the right wing and blew the acft to the left. The left wing hit a hangar door & was torn off, then the acft crashed to the ground & came to rest upside down. The wind was rprtd to be gusting to 17 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1402X
- Reported as
- Lake LA-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24
- Airframe hours
- 74
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-C4B5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Isla Del Lago, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 1985 · 74 hours before
- Departed
- TVC · Traverse City, MI
- Airport
- 3D4 · Frankfort Muni, runway 14, 3,250 × 50 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 156 total · 33 in this make and model · 42 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 10 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TVC, 28 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.