- Date
- November 13, 1983, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Boca Raton, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N114GWGary Wilson Quickie
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 31062
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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
According to the plt, he had only 2 hrs flt time in quickie acft & this was his 1st flt in N114GW. He reported that after taking off, the acft tried to roll left. He used all available aileron to counteract the roll, but it was not effective. When impact was considered inevitable, he 'cut the throttle.' Shortly thereafter, the acft crashed into a tree & was destroyed, but the plt reported he was not injured. Impact occurred about 1 1/2 mi from the arpt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N114GW
- Reported as
- Gary Wilson Quickie
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 114
- Airframe hours
- 65
- Engine
- Onan B48M-GA018, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- George W. English
- Destination
- FLL · Ft. Lauderdale, 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
- 27
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 388 total · 2 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FLL, 13 nm away