- Date
- June 16, 1991, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Kenosha, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N222THAllan R. Goldman Dragonfly
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910616022179A
- Case key
- 14843
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Probable cause
Inadequate aircraft design and insufficient information regarding wing versus canard angle for an amateur built aircraft.
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 pilot/builder of the amateur built aircraft was conducting the first flight on the aircraft. On initial landing the pilot found that he did not have enough control authority to flare the aircraft for landing. A second and third attempt were made with similar findings. On the third attempt the aircraft bounced approximately ten feet in the air and on landing the left canard which also serves as the left main landing gear, failed. The pilot/builder stated that the aircraft design and limited information in the design plans could allow for as much as three degrees variation in the angle between the wing and the canard, this, he contends, could contribute to the limited control authority.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N222TH
- Reported as
- Allan R. Goldman Dragonfly
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 491
- Engine
- Hapi 82-2DEH, 82 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Allan R. Goldman
- Registered owner
- Allan R. Goldman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Airport
- ENW · Kenosha, runway 6, 5,500 × 100 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
- 47
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,209 total · 1 in this make and model · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N222TH · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.