- Date
- March 25, 1987, 17:24 local (22:24 UTC)
- Place
- Williston, FL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N2484VAero Mirage TC-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report July 5, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870325007459A
- Case key
- 31755
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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
Witnesses stated that the acft made a 'fly by' at 300 ft to check and see if the gear was down. The ground personnel informed the plt that the gear appeared to be down. They stated that the acft then made a sharp left turn paralleling runway 14, they lost sight of it behind some trees & moments later heard the impact. The passenger stated that after they made their fly by the plt executed a 90 degree bank. Left wing and nose struck the ground & the acft rolled upside down & slid to a stop inverted. The pass'g later stated that the eng quit prior to ground contact due to carburetor ice. Conditions were conducive to serious carb icing at glide power.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2484V
- Reported as
- Aero Mirage TC-2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 001
- Airframe hours
- 151
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kenneth Wheeler
- Registered owner
- Val Burnhardt
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- GNV · Gainesville, FL
- Destination
- X60 · Williston, FL
- Airport
- X60 · Williston Municipal, runway 32, 4,700 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 24
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 800 total · 50 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 170° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 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.