- Date
- April 17, 1973
- Place
- Greenville, KY · GREENVILLE, KY
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N2207Fly Baby 1-A
- Status
- Completed · report July 2, 1973
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19730417012749A
- Case key
- 173597
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1430 73/4/17 GREENVILLE,KY FLY BABY 1-A CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 56, 2587 TIME - 1645 N2207 PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 25 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - MUHLENBERG COUNTY DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION GREENVILLE,KY LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION STALL TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED FACTOR(S) WEATHER - DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS WEATHER BRIEFING - NO RECORD OF BRIEFING RECEIVED WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE SCATTERED UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE RELATIVE BEARING OF WIND NONE HEAD WIND 338-022 DEGREES WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 225 10 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR NONE
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2207
- Reported as
- Fly Baby 1-A
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Muhlenberg County
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.