- Date
- August 30, 1991, 11:50 local (16:50 UTC)
- Place
- Metropolis, IL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N28PHocker Dragonfly
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910830037309A
- Case key
- 14863
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
Pilot's failure to maintain airspeed above stall.
Analysis
A commercial pilot on a local flight returned to land his homebuilt airplane. He bounced the first landing and made two more circuits of the pattern without touching down. On the fourth pass, the airplane was seen to turn steeply to final, stall and spiral to ground one half mile from the runway.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N28P
- Reported as
- Hocker Dragonfly
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 268
- Engine
- Hapi 60-20DM, 45 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Orville K. Hocker
- Registered owner
- Orville K. Hocker
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Airport
- M30 · Metropolis Muni., runway 36, 3,000 × 75 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
- 73
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 2,000 total · 200 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,700 ft broken
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PAH, 9 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.