- Date
- April 14, 1984, 15:05 local (22:05 UTC)
- Place
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- UNREGAmerican Falcon
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 16260
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
In flight collision with object
Object - wire,transmissionFactor
Clearance - misjudgedCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
Reportedly, the plt made an apch to rwy 18, then initiated a go-around due to traffic on the rwy. He reported that traffic to the left necessitated a right pattern. There were power lines located aprx 500 ft west of the grass strip, about 40 to 50 ft AGL. While turning base from a downwind, the right wing struck a power line, then the ultralight hit the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- UNREG
- Reported as
- American Falcon
- Category
- Ultralight
- Serial number
- 05125
- Airframe hours
- 15
- Engine
- Rotax 277, 25 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 103
- Registered owner
- Free Flight, Inc.
- Departed
- Cedar Valley, UT
- Airport
- runway 18, 500 × 75 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 33
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 5,500 total · 100 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F