- Date
- March 8, 1984, 17:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Huntington, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- UNREGEipper Quicksilver MXL
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 21155
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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 plt made several touch and go landings in his newly acquired ultra light vehicle. On a subsquent flt at about 75 ft AGL, the outboard portion of the left wing folded upward about 90 degrees. The vehicle started to roll inverted and the plt used full rudder and power which stopped the roll, but the vehicle still turned left and descended. The plt cut the power at 15 ft AGL. The vehicle hit left wing low, nose low and bounced about 30 ft before stopping. The wing failure was determined to be from overload by an NTSB metallurgist. There were rub marks on the left wing tip of an undeterminednature.
Aircraft
- Registration
- UNREG
- Reported as
- Eipper Quicksilver MXL (QUICKSILVE)
- Category
- Ultralight
- Serial number
- 1286
- Airframe hours
- 3
- Engine
- Rotax 377, 30 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 103
- Registered owner
- Daniel V. Wheeler
- Last inspection
- Unknown · March 5, 1984 · 3 hours before
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 63
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 27,750 total · 3 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LFK, 15 nm away