- Date
- May 31, 1987, 11:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Iola, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6509QAircoupe A-2-DEX
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 7, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870531017449A
- Case key
- 13771
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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 aircraft experienced a loss of engine power shortly after takeoff and was forced to make an emergency landing next to the runway. On landing roll the nose wheel of the aircraft stuck in the ground, flipping the aircraft over onto its back. According to a passenger on an earlier flight, the aircraft had experienced an engine failure on the earlier flight, but landed safely on the remaining runway. There was no evidence found or provided by the pilot to show that any corrective maintenance was performed to correct or determine the cause of the previous engine failure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6509Q
- Reported as
- Aircoupe A-2-DEX
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- A-109
- Airframe hours
- 2,030
- Engine
- Continental C-90, 45 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- R.H. Stevenson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 68C
- Airport
- 68C · Central County, runway 22, 2,600 × 100 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 553 total · 30 in this make and model · 40 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft overcast
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AUW
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.