- Date
- May 31, 1986, 14:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Cheyenne, WY
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N3967SBauer'S Mitchell Wing U-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 16824
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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.
Analysis
This was an experimental amateur-built acft. Witnesses reported seeing the acft in a steep right bank when the eng lost power. The acft was then seen to stall and enter a right spin. Witnesses said the plt recovered but entered a second stall and dove straight into ground. No evidence of airframe, eng, prop, or flt control malfunction/failure was found. Eng was later functionally tested and ran normally. Plt had never been given instruction in stall/spin recovery. Plt had logged 7 hrs in acft and was making 5th flt when accident occurred. Density altitude was computed to be 8157 ft MSL.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3967S
- Reported as
- Bauer'S Mitchell Wing U-2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- U-462
- Airframe hours
- 7
- Engine
- Cuyuna 440, 30 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Edward Joseph Bauer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 13, 1985 · 7 hours before
- Departed
- CYS · Cheyenne, WY
- Airport
- CYS · Cheyenne
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
- 63
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 247 total · 7 in this make and model · 150 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CYS, 3 nm away