- Date
- February 22, 1993, 11:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Joshua Tree, CA
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N186SSchicora Osprey 2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 15, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930222003089A
- Case key
- 27932
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot flying to attain adequate airspeed for lift off and the resulting inadvertent stall mush condition during the initial climb.
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 aircraft builder was flying the aircraft from the right seat and providing familiarization training to a flight instructor who was to teach the new aircraft owner how to fly the aircraft. The pilots said that the ground roll and rotation were normal and the aircraft lifted off the runway at about 60 knots. Both pilots stated that the aircraft would not climb above 10 feet AGL and it settled back to the ground off the right side of the runway and collided with some brush and the terrain. Both pilots stated that the winds were calm at the time of the attempted takeoff and there was no mechanical malfunction of either the aircraft or engine. The aircraft builder stated that at the gross weight and outside temperature conditions existing at the time the aircraft should have had a rate of climb of about 800 feet per minute.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N186S
- Reported as
- Schicora Osprey 2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 831
- Airframe hours
- 220
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A3B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- William R. Schicora
- Registered owner
- Chris & Wanda Voightlander
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 30, 1993 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- L80
- Destination
- L80
- Airport
- L80 · Hi-Desert, runway 24, 2,650 × 50 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
- 36
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,350 total · 2 in this make and model · 3,190 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.