- Date
- June 23, 1985, 07:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Glendale, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N17RMStarduster II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850623026979A
- Case key
- 24750
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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 plt crossed the arpt at midfield and made a left turn for a close in downwind. Witnesses estimated that he made a 180 deg descending turn to final. While on final the plt observed another acft which was already on final slightly aheadand slightly below his acft. The plt performed a hard pull up to avoid the other acft and allowed his acft to stall without sufficient alt to effect recovery before ground impact occurred.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N17RM
- Reported as
- Starduster II
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1488
- Airframe hours
- 420
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Joseph Refsnes
- Registered owner
- Joseph Refsnes
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- P37 · Glendale, AZ
- Airport
- P37 · Glendal Municipal, runway 17, 2,400 × 50 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
- 40
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 4,137 total · 11 in this make and model · 3,616 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.