- Date
- September 26, 1992, 18:23 local (23:23 UTC)
- Place
- Fredericksburg, TX
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N5579VStits Playboy
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920926038799A
- Case key
- 18335
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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
A commercial pilot was executing 'ag turns' at the departure end of the runway to reverse his course and land on the runway he had just taken off from. On the third turn the airplane stalled and impacted the ground in a nose low, wings level attitude.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5579V
- Reported as
- Stits Playboy
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 3A-SA
- Airframe hours
- 475
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-G4, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Day, Jackie B.
- Registered owner
- Day, Jackie B.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · February 26, 1992
- Departed
- T82
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
- 58
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 3,200 total · 60 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ERV, 18 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.