- Date
- May 31, 1992, 18:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lake Mills, IA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N5141BRonnie Baker BEE 2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920531017129A
- Case key
- 15210
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Probable cause
Excessive taxispeed and inadvertent liftoff at an airspeed below stalling speed by the pilot in command.
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 owner had just moved the airplane to the airport where the accident occurred. He assembled the wings to the fuselage and was performing fast taxi maneuvers when the airplane became airborne. The airplane reached an altitude of approximately 50 feet, turned right, and descended into terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5141B
- Reported as
- Ronnie Baker BEE 2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 001
- Engine
- Rotax 532, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- William R. Yocom
- Registered owner
- William R. Yocom
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · July 7, 1988 · 60 hours before
- Airport
- 0Y6 · Lake Mills Municipal, runway 18, 3,425 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 138 total · 138 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.