- Date
- April 5, 1987, 13:27 local (20:27 UTC)
- Place
- Healdsburg, CA
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N9216KStinson 108
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 6, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870405079139A
- Case key
- 25581
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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
During what was supposed to be a taxi test, the plt decided to takeoff when he lost control of the acft. The acft veered to the right off the rwy and collided with the terrain. The plt had flown the acft for the first time with the owner the day before the accident. The owner stated that the plt could not takeoff or land the acft without assistance. On the day of the accident the owner had instructed the plt to taxi the acft around to get the feel of the brakes, however, the plt took the acft down the rwy where he lost control when the acft took off. At an altitude of 3 to 5 feet AGL the left wing dipped, the acft settled to the rwy then veered right.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9216K
- Reported as
- Stinson 108
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 108-2216
- Airframe hours
- 1,976
- Engine
- Franklin 6A4-150-B3, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Elton W. Farmer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 12, 1986 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- 031 · Healdsburg, CA
- Airport
- 031 · Healdsburg, runway 31, 2,707 × 45 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
- 57
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 21,800 total · 3 in this make and model · 18,000 as pilot in command · 78 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- UKI, 32 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.