- Date
- February 13, 1983, 21:00 local (Feb 14, 1983, 05:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hemet, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N71RJHomebuilt Gypsy Hawk
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830213036699A
- Case key
- 23547
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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 acft nosed over during a forced landing after the engine quit during the departure phase of a touch & go landing. The owner would not allow inspection of the acft for 4 months after the accident. At the time of inspection parts of the acft, including the engine, were removed and stored at another location.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N71RJ
- Reported as
- Homebuilt Gypsy Hawk
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1
- Airframe hours
- 251
- Engine
- Continental A65, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Michael A. Giordano
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 13, 1983 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- Riverside, CA
- Destination
- Hemet, CA
- Airport
- HMT · Hemet-Ryan, runway 23, 4,315 × 100 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
- 24
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 7 total · 1 in this make and model · 1 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.