- Date
- July 4, 1991, 18:31 local (23:31 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Fe, TX
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N20LLDaniel La Lee Miget Mustang M-1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 9, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910704025789A
- Case key
- 23218
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Probable cause
The pilot's performance of an aerobatic maneuver at an altitude inadequate to allow for safe recovery.
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 pilot had been performaning aerobatic maneuvers over the city and initiated a loop at low atitude. At the bottm of the loop, on a northerly heading, the airplane banked sharlpy to the left and impacted the ground. Electrical power lines ran in an east-west direction a short distance north of the point of impact. Witness statements were contradictory reference whether the maneuver was an outside or inside loop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N20LL
- Reported as
- Daniel La Lee Miget Mustang M-1 (MIGET MUST)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 534
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Stacy L. Williams
- Registered owner
- William L. Gottenberg
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 13, 1991 · 20 hours before
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
- 25
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,700 total · 10 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.