- Date
- July 16, 1988, 11:20 local (18:20 UTC)
- Place
- Corona, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N5428RCosta TEENY-TWO
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 28, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880716027959A
- Case key
- 25719
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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 homebuilt teeny-two acft was built with a 40 HP, british reliant, hawk ae eng, rather than a volkswagon eng which builders normally used. It had been flown only one time before the acdnt flt. The 1st flt was made in cooler temp conds without incident; the 2nd flt was made on an 81 deg day. The plt rprtd that drg takeoff on the 2nd flt, all seemed reasonably normal until after the acft lifted off at abt midfield. After it had become airborne & traveled about 3/4 of the way down the 3200' rwy, the plt felt the acft 'stagger a little.' He checked for full throttle & lowered the nose to pick up airspeed. However, as the acft continued over a swamp at the end of the rwy, it started to settle & would not sustain flt. Subsequently, it touched down & crashed on the swampy terrain. No preimpact mechanical failure or malfunction was rprtd.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5428R
- Reported as
- Costa TEENY-TWO
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 15-2091
- Airframe hours
- 1
- Engine
- Reliant HAWK AE, 40 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- Costa, Walter F
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 29, 1988 · 2 hours before
- Airport
- L66 · Corona, runway 25, 3,200 × 60 ft, grass/turf
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 207 total · 1 in this make and model · 150 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ONT, 5 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.