- Date
- September 28, 1989, 15:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Oakdale, CA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N23EZSkilling VARI-EZE
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 22, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890928036939A
- Case key
- 26158
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control and the delayed initiation of the aborted landing. A factor was lack of aircraft familiarity.
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 private pilot was receiving a checkout in the airplane. During the landing roll, the airplane exited the left side of the runway. The instructor pilot seated in the rear seat only had a control yoke and did not have a throttle. The pvt pilot added full power, but the airplane did not become airborne before colliding with the hilly terrain. The pvt pilot failed to reduce the power when it became evident that the airplane was not going to takeoff.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N23EZ
- Reported as
- Skilling VARI-EZE
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1592
- Airframe hours
- 110
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Daniel E. Thomas
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 3, 1989 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- SCK · Stockton, CA
- Airport
- 027 · Oakdale, runway 28, 3,020 × 66 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
- 35
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 90 total · 10 in this make and model · 20 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SCK, 22 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.