- Date
- September 18, 1987, 15:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Cedar Valley, UT
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N84772Evans VP-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 6, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870918053639A
- Case key
- 17073
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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
The acft was flown by two different plts who complained of stiff ailerons. The aileron system was examined but no deficiencies were noted. A third plt then took off and began a lt turn at about 75 to 100 ft AGL. When he attempted to return to wings level he was unable to roll to the rt. The lt bank then increased and the acft collided with the ground in a lt wing low, nose low attitude and cartwheeled. Examination of the inboard aileron pulley block on the lt wing revealed that adhesive used to affix the block to the supporting structure had seeped down to the outside of the pulley and formed a bond between the pulley and the structure. The pulley also had a groove worn in the pulley channel consistent with lack of pulley rotation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N84772
- Reported as
- Evans VP-2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- N84772
- Engine
- Continental A75, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Harold Wirth
- Registered owner
- Charles Samuel Francis
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
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
- 44
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 4,000 total · 2 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- 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.