- Date
- July 19, 1991, 18:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Roscoe, SD
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N336DTWag-Aero Super Cuby
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910719028739A
- Case key
- 14880
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent stall and inadequate remedial action. Associated factors are the pilot's lack of recent total experience and inadequate preflight planning/preparation.
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
A witness to the accident observed the accident airplane flying about 100' AGL. He looked away but returned his gaze to the airplane when he heard the engine stop. He observed the airplane pitch 'straight down with its wings level' and descend into the ground. The airplane was serviced just before the flight with 12.6 gallons of fuel added to the empty left tank. Approximately 1.5 to 2 gallons was observed in the right tank just prior to the flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N336DT
- Reported as
- Wag-Aero Super Cuby
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 13662465
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-GPU, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard L. Fuhrmann
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
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
- 23
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 170 total · 15 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- ABR, 45 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.