- Date
- December 16, 1991, 10:33 local (16:33 UTC)
- Place
- Alpine, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7EKKinkade E.5 Vans RV-4
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911216056369A
- Case key
- 18427
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Probable cause
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 private pilot flying his experimental airplane, was turning from base to final approach when he stalled the airplane. The pilot added power to recover; the left wing dropped and the wing tip struck the ground. The home built airplane was not equipped with a stall warning system.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7EK
- Reported as
- Kinkade E.5 Vans RV-4
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 367
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320-E3D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Emmett S. Kinkade
- Registered owner
- Emmett S. Kinkade
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Airport
- E38 · Alpine, runway 5, 5,016 × 60 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 671 total · 554 in this make and model · 610 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.