- Date
- July 24, 1991, 10:25 local (15:25 UTC)
- Place
- San Marcos, TX
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7PZQuestair Venture
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910724030179A
- Case key
- 23233
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain flying airspeed resulting in a 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
The private pilot was performing a maintenance test flight in the traffic pattern of his home base airport in his experimental airplane. After departing from the runway, the airplane was observed in a left turn on base to final approach. Eyewitnesses stated that the airplane continued to bank left and tightened the turn before it nosed over out of control to impact the ground. Several witnesses monitored an exemplar flight during the investigation and noted that the accident airplane appeared to be slower in the pattern compared to the demonstration airplane. No mechanical anomalies were found to any airplane system during the investigation by the FAA coordinator.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7PZ
- Reported as
- Questair Venture
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 21
- Airframe hours
- 35
- Engine
- Continental IO-550-G1B, 280 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Frank Brantley Scott
- Registered owner
- Frank Brantley Scott
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 24, 1991 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- T98
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
- 62
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 4,770 total · 35 in this make and model · 3,670 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 72 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.