- Date
- April 30, 1985, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Yukon, OK
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N66HHolder Midget Mustang I
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850430015049A
- Case key
- 21544
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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 relatively low time pilot (99 total hours) had no recorded experience in high performance aircraft. He had just purchased the midget mustang and had practiced both low and high speed taxi runs on two occasions in the aircraft. He was observed to make one takeoff and landings just prior to the crash. The aircraft apparently was turing base for its third landing when it stalled and the pilot lost control. The aircraft then entered a nose down high speed dive and impacted the ground before recovery could be completed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66H
- Reported as
- Holder Midget Mustang I (MIDGET MUS)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 380
- Airframe hours
- 111
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-G, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- David A. Janes
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 9, 1984 · 1 hours before
- Airport
- Page, runway 35, 3,500 × 75 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
- 27
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 99 total · 1 in this make and model · 63 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PWA, 12 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.