- Date
- January 18, 1987, 15:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Albuquerque, NM
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N918AAAmerican Aerolights Falcon C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 2, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870118000599A
- Case key
- 17092
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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.
Loss of control - in flight
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Overconfidence in aircraft's abilityFactor
Stall/spin - inadvertentCause
Remedial action - not performedCause
In-flight planning/decision - poorFactor
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
After takeoff the plt initiated a steep nose up left climbing turn to approximately 300 ft AGL where the acft stalled. It entered a spin and descended in a nose down attitude until impact with the ground. The acft was destroyed and the student plt was fatally injured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N918AA
- Reported as
- American Aerolights Falcon C
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- AA1A000003
- Airframe hours
- 222
- Engine
- Rotax 503, 45 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- William R. Ross
- Registered owner
- William R. Ross
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 8, 1985 · 80 hours before
- Departed
- 4AC · Albuquerque, NM
- Airport
- 4AC · Coronado, runway 21, 3,500 × 50 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Center
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 278 total · 278 in this make and model · 278 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 25 °F, dew point 10 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ABQ, 9 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
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