- Date
- May 2, 1988, 11:19 local (18:19 UTC)
- Place
- Merced, CA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N127ASSchumann KR-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 10, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880502012129A
- Case key
- 25743
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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 pilot was flight testing a new airplane that he had constructed. He had completed two touch and go landings. During a third approach, witnesses observed the airplane approaching the runway at a very high airspeed. The airplane touched down on the runway and porpoised. After touching down on the runway two more times, the airplane dove to the left and crashed in a field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N127AS
- Reported as
- Schumann KR-2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 7102
- Airframe hours
- 1
- Engine
- Limbach L2000E01, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Alvin M. Schumann
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Airport
- MCE · Merced, runway 30, 5,903 × 150 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
- 62
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 3,520 total · 1 in this make and model · 3,000 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCE, 1 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.