- Date
- August 7, 1990, 16:48 local (21:48 UTC)
- Place
- Milwaukee, WI
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N44EDChristen Industries Eagle II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 21, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900807030979A
- Case key
- 14481
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain aircraft control, his misjudgment of proper glidepath and his not performing a timely go-around.
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
On the turn from base to final the aircraft encountered an excessive sink rate, from which the pilot did not recover. The aircraft impacted short of the runway and the aircraft sustained substantial damage. Nothing of a mechanical nature was found that would have prevented the engine from performing normally. The pilot mae no attempt to go-around when proper glidepath was not attained.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N44ED
- Reported as
- Christen Industries Eagle II
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- HUMPHREY
- Airframe hours
- 126
- Engine
- Lycoming AE10-360-A1D, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Humphrey, Edwin J.
- Registered owner
- Edwin J. Humphrey
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 4, 1990 · 2 hours before
- Airport
- MKE · General Mitchell, runway 7R, 8,010 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 74
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 6,470 total · 126 in this make and model · 6,000 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MKE
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 N44ED · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.