- Date
- August 17, 1984, 07:50 local (11:50 UTC)
- Place
- Naples, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4543YBrown KR-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840817041369A
- Case key
- 31178
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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.
Hard landing
Flare - misjudgedCause
Lack of total experienceFactor
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintained
Analysis
While on the first flt of the acft a hard landing was made and directional control was lost. The acft traveled off the left side of the rwy. Substantial damage was sustained during the hard landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4543Y
- Reported as
- Brown KR-2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Airframe hours
- 1
- Engine
- Revmaster 67, 67 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kenneth B. Brown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Airport
- APE · Naples Municipal, runway 4, 5,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 69
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,985 total · 1 in this make and model · 50 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 77 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- APF
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.