- Date
- October 9, 2011, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Westmoreland, TN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N46513Aeronca 0-58A
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Collision during takeoff/land
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 18, 2012
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20111009022989A
- Case key
- 82041
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate visual lookout and failure to maintain clearance from an obstacle during takeoff.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot was taking off from a private airstrip; as he was looking at a hay bale to the left of the airplane, the right wing tip struck another hay bale. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the airframe and the right wing. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions during the flight.
Factual narrative
The pilot stated that during a take-off from a 2,000-foot private strip, he was looking at a hay bale on the left side of the airplane when the right wingtip struck a hay bale. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the airframe and the right wing. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions during the flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46513
- Reported as
- Aeronca 0-58A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 42-7798
- Airframe hours
- 1,815
- Engine
- Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Henderson Blake W
- Registered owner
- Henderson Blake W
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 10, 2009 · 61 hours before
- Departed
- Westmoreland, TN
- Destination
- Westmoreland, TN
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- NONE · Private Airstrip, runway 36, 2,000 × 30 ft, grass/turf
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
- 49
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 22, 2010
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,695 total · 622 in this make and model · 1,586 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.23 inHg
- Observed at
- BWG, 21 nm away
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 30, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.0 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N46513 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.