- Date
- October 25, 1987, 11:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Camarillo, CA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N72PStits Elkins 85
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871025060589A
- Case key
- 25735
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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
During the starting procedures for a local flight, the pilot had chocked the wheels and was hand-propping the engine. After several tries, the engine started. The airplane jumped the chocks and the pilot moved to the right wing, attempting to stop the airplane. The airplane pivoted around the plt and collided with a hangar. The plt received a fatal head injury when the acft wing knocked him to the pavement.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N72P
- Reported as
- Stits Elkins 85
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 104
- Airframe hours
- 347
- Engine
- Continental A-75, 75 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jules S. Leon
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 22, 1987 · 49 hours before
- Airport
- CMA · Camarillo
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
- 54
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,000 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.