- Date
- October 24, 1983, 12:52 local (16:52 UTC)
- Place
- St Augustine, FL
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N42RHHight Smaragd CP-301-S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831024055349A
- Case key
- 30949
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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 owner/builder/plt of the home built acft & a passenger (a foreign visitor) were on a local flt along a beach area. The purpose of the flt was for the visitor to take some video tape footage with the video camera that he took along. Witnesses, including a friend of the visitor, saw the acft flying slow at an alt of aprx 100 ft AGL & 300 yards from the beach. They reported that the acft was flying parallel to the shore line when it pulled up in what appeared to be the initiation of a climb. At about that time, the acft suddenly fell off on the right wing & rolled to an inverted, nose low attitude. Reportedly, the acft had rolled back to a wings level attitude, and was recovering from a dive, when it impacted in the water. Witnesses reported that the engine was operating at a high RPM (screaming) when the acft crashed in about a 45 deg nose down attitude. An exam of the wreckage revealed no preimpact failures.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42RH
- Reported as
- Hight Smaragd CP-301-S
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 007
- Airframe hours
- 233
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Roger Hight
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 25, 1983 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- SGI · St Augustine, FL
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
- 65
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 708 total · 148 in this make and model · 25 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CRG, 25 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.