- Date
- July 4, 1991, 12:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Crane, TX
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- UNREGLGS CGS Hawk
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 23213
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Probable cause
The inadvertent stall.
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
Witnesses reported that the pilot of the unregistered airplane was practicing takeoffs and landing for approximately one hour prior to the accident. The airplane banked steeply and descended vertically to impact. Although the homebuilt airplane was originally built as an ultralight, it had been modifield by the pilot/builder. These changes resulted in weight and fuel capacity exceeding specification for an ultralight. No pilot or medical certification had been obtained by the pilot.
Aircraft
- Registration
- UNREG
- Reported as
- LGS CGS Hawk
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- Kawasaki TA440A-F204, 80 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Enoch R. Kimbrough
- Registered owner
- Enoch R. Kimbrough
- Departed
- NONE · Odessa, TX
- Airport
- E13 · Crane County, runway 12, 3,800 × 70 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 68
- Seat
- Center
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 300 total · 300 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg