- Date
- November 19, 1970
- Place
- Jonesboro, AR · JONESBORO, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N2168Sport Acft Teenie
- Status
- Completed · report August 19, 1971
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 159246
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4194 70/11/19 JONESBORO,ARK SPORT ACFT TEENIE CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS PRIVATE, AGE 40, 550 TIME - 1045 N2168 PX- 0 0 0 TEST TOTAL HOURS, 0 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - JONESBORO DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION JONESBORO,ARK LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED TAKEOFF: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PLT-INADVERTENTLY BECAME AIRBORNE ON HI SPEED TAXI WEATHER - UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS FACTOR(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT WEATHER BRIEFING - NO RECORD OF BRIEFING RECEIVED WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE CLEAR UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE RELATIVE BEARING OF WIND NONE LEFT CROSS WIND 248-292 DEGREES WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 160 12 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR NONE REMARKS- 70 DEG L X-WIND GUSTING TO 20K. CANOPY OFF ACFT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2168
- Reported as
- Sport Acft Teenie
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Jonesboro
N2168Registration cancelled Jan 25, 1972 · Sport Aero Club TEENIE WEENIEAirframe modelSport Aero Club TEENIE WEENIE
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.