- Date
- July 25, 1985, 15:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Rawlins, WY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N66LWWoolsey Quickie Q2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850725033779A
- Case key
- 16774
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
After taking off, the plt noted that the acft's CG had shifted, & as fuel was consumed, the elevator down authority seem to decay. He suspected that baggage (stowed behind the plt's seat & inaccessible during flt) had shifted aft requiring greater than usual forward stick pressure to maintain level flt. Also, he stated that during normal operation of the home built acft, the main wheel brakes were locked in flt because of vibration. When the plt landed at Rawlins, he was concerned about the CG situation & forgot to unlock the main wheel brakes. During the landing touchdown, the acft veered left onto dirt terrain, crossed a ditch & came to rest with substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66LW
- Reported as
- Woolsey Quickie Q2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Airframe hours
- 100
- Engine
- Revmaster 2100, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gordon Pratt
- Registered owner
- Lacelle W. Woolsey
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- EVW · Evanston, WY
- Destination
- OSH · Oshkosh, WI
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- RWL · Rawlins, runway 4, 7,008 × 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,083 total · 110 in this make and model · 40 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RWL
FAA reports on this event · 1
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