- Date
- July 25, 1988, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Mitchell, SD
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N42JKKrall Dragonfly
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880725027899A
- Case key
- 17513
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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
Drg the 1st attempt to land, the acft bounced several times, then the plt made a go-around. On the 2nd attempt, the acft bounced again & began to porpoise. A witness heard the eng RPM increase to 'what sounded like full power.' The acft lifted off, but subsequently, the nose dropped & the acft impacted in grass beside the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42JK
- Reported as
- Krall Dragonfly
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 230
- Airframe hours
- 315
- Engine
- Volkswagen UNK, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Krall Jeffery P
- Registered owner
- Krall, Jeffrey P.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1988 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- PIR · Pierre, SD
- Destination
- MHE
- Airport
- MHE · Mitchell Muni, runway 12, 6,705 × 150 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
- 20
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 209 total · 8 in this make and model · 66 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- 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.