- Date
- August 15, 1988, 09:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- White Cloud, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N939HHulliberger Starduster II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 16, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880815032979A
- Case key
- 13871
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Probable cause
Unauthorized pilot failed to maintain adequate control of the homebuilt aircraft during the landing roll. The aircraft veered off the right side of the runway, and the left wing struck the ground.
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 homebuilt aircraft, piloted by an unidentified/unauthorized pilot, veered to the right during the landing roll, and departed the runway. The left wing impacted the ground at the side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N939H
- Reported as
- Hulliberger Starduster II (STARDUSTER)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 939
- Airframe hours
- 3
- Engine
- Continental W670, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Marvin W. Hulliberger
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- 42C · White Cloud, MI
- Airport
- 42C · White Cloud, runway 17, 2,911 × 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
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GRR, 50 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 N939H · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.