- Date
- October 23, 1983, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Manvel, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- UNREGPterodactyl Ascender II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 21489
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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 reported that during takeoff, the eng began to lose power, just after he passed the end of the rwy. He turned back toward the rwy & the eng stopped. Shortly after that the ultralight vehicle struck a strand of barbed wire which was mounted about 30 ft above the ground. The wire was over adjoining properly, a short distance from the end of the rwy. After hitting the wire, the ultralight crashed on the rwy. The plt did not see the wire until just prior to impact & was unaware that it had been installed there. The reason for the power loss was not verified.
Aircraft
- Registration
- UNREG
- Reported as
- Pterodactyl Ascender II (ASCENDER I)
- Category
- Ultralight, amateur-built
- Airframe hours
- 100
- Engine
- Cuyuna UL2-02, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 103
- Registered owner
- Robert M. Wolff
- Airport
- runway 33, 800 × ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 32
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Expired
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 267 total · 37 in this make and model · 254 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day