- Date
- September 27, 1987, 13:25 local (18:25 UTC)
- Place
- Del Rio, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N67SNNixon Quickie 1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 22215
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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
Earlier in the day, the plt had flown the home built acft on its maiden flt of 0.2 hrs with no rprtd problems. He stated that after taking off on the 2nd flt, he was climbing at aprx 200' AGL when the acft seemed to hit a gust of wind & roll left. He applied opposite aileron which failed to correct the situation. Witnesses rprtd the acft started a shallow rgt turn, then it entered a steep bank & dove toward the ground. The plt indcd the acft entered a departure stall & there was insufficient alt to recover. The acft impacted the ground in a nose low, left wing low attitude. Prior to the day of the acdnt, the plt had no flt time in this make & model of acft. He had 1 hr of flt time in other acft during the previous 90 days. The 1256 CDT wind at Del Rio, TX was rprtd to be from 070 deg at 8 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67SN
- Reported as
- Nixon Quickie 1
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 406
- Airframe hours
- 2
- Engine
- Onan B48M, 18 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Patrick Wayne Whitten
- Registered owner
- Patrick W. Whitten
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 21, 1987 · 2 hours before
- Airport
- DRT · Del Rio Intl, runway 13, 5,105 × 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
- 38
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 269 total · 1 in this make and model · 227 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DLF, 7 nm away