- Date
- January 12, 1991, 09:19 local (17:19 UTC)
- Place
- Camarillo, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N13VDVirgil D. Hawks Quickie
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910112000359A
- Case key
- 26955
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Probable cause
The pilot's encounter with wake turbulence and his inflight loss of control by his failure to maintain a sufficient landing distance from a larger aircraft preceding his aircraft.
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 of the homebuilt stated he was on final approach behind a landing T-6 aircraft. When he was about 15 to 20 feet above the ground he encountered the wake turbulence from the T-6. The aircraft rolled to the right and descended into the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N13VD
- Reported as
- Virgil D. Hawks Quickie
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 554
- Airframe hours
- 200
- Engine
- Rotax ROTAX 503, 46 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Virgil D. Hawks
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 24, 1990 · 13 hours before
- Airport
- CMA · Camarillo, runway 26, 6,010 × 150 ft, macadam
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
- 64
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 320 total · 200 in this make and model · 289 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CMA, 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.