- Date
- July 26, 1985, 05:43 local (12:43 UTC)
- Place
- Prescott, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N4422PHuff Sonerai IIL
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850726034309A
- Case key
- 24781
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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.
Loss of control - in flight
Lift-off - not maintainedCause
Stall - inadvertentCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
The plt reptd that during the takeoff off roll, he applied back pressure to the control stick when the acft reached 60 knots. The aircraft began an immediate climb at a steep angle, stalled and crashed on to the rwy. This was the initial flight for this homebuilt acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4422P
- Reported as
- Huff Sonerai IIL (SONERAI II)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 924L
- Engine
- Volkswagen 1, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Duane Huff
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 26, 1985 · 0 hours before
- Airport
- PRC · Ernest A. Love, runway 21, 7,618 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 48
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 377 total · 336 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 131 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PRC
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.